Word: covered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Mr. Lasker: " This very trial trip was fully provided for by experts engaged in December, 1919, by a Shipping Board headed by John Barton Payne under the Democratic Administration. . . . In January, 1922, the experts referred to ... asked the present Shipping Board . . . to appropriate $120,000 to cover the cost of the trial trip, which sum included the cost of guests...
...riding confreres from all quarters of the West are going to come a-hootin'. Arrangements have been made to quarter some 400 head of stock under the Yankee grandstand-broncos, steers for the bulldoggmg contests, calves for the roping, etc. A huge cocoa-mat will cover the dia-mand and the greater part of the outfield, and the bulldogging and roping will take place on the mat. There will also be relay races on the present track, which will be widened especially for the purpose. Events will take place every afternoon and every night with tickets...
...Angeles delegation cheered the President so loudly that Laddie Boy, Presidential hound, ran to cover...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: WHOSE BODY?−Dorothy L. Sayers−Boni and Liveright ($2.00). A respectable little London architect wakes up one morning to dis- cover the body of an unknown Israelite, nude except for a pair of gold pince-nez, in his bathtub. Whose body? And who is responsible for its presence there? The police, as usual, bungle the matter, but Lord Peter Wimsey, a delightfully indolent young clubman, assisted by the usual Watson and a splendidly upstage butler named Bunter...
...Camelots du Roi (Royalists), emulating Facismo, attacked three socialists with tar, ink, sticks and castor oil. The Socialists are: M. Marc Sangnier, leader of the Socialist Radical Party; M. Marius Moutet, a prominent defender in the Caillaux trial; M. Viollette, formerly Minister of Subsistence. Said M. Sangnier: " They can cover me with tar and force castor oil down my throat, but they can never win me to their methods...