Word: crazed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increased the capacity. 6) That we went into the Insane Asylum and extracted as many as 1,500 abscessed teeth in one week's time, that had been left in the heads of those poor people as long as 20 years. 7) That we stopped the pardon craze in this State, forced a few people to be hanged, and used the militia where it was necessary. I begin to wonder what kind of respectability or conscience can be attached to your magazine, with the kind of filthy falsehoods that you circulated through this country. You never have explained anything...
...once proud of its whiskey, women and steeds. Of his native State's whiskey from the pioneers to the Prohibitionists, Author Cobb betrays some knowledge. Excerpt: "Just about the time they first began making red likker here in Kentucky, which was back in pioneer days, there was a craze on for French names among our people. As a result there's a Bourbon County and a Fayette County and a town named Paris and a town named Versailles . . . so maybe they named it [red likker] for Bourbon County...
...Baltimore raged a flagpole sitting craze for children. One "Azey" Foreman, 14, claimed a junior championship with a record of 10 days, 10 hr., 10 min., 10 sec. Soon rivals appeared. In a few days, 21 poles bore young perchers, applauded, tended, pointed out by ambitious parents. Unambitious parents had to watch their young to keep them from sneaking up telephone poles. Developments were rapid...
...tasted." Worth memorizing is the fact that 1921 was a "great year" not only for Châateau Yquem but for almost every white wine of note in France or Germany. Memorable too are Châateau Lafite 1920 and Châateau Haut-Brion 1921. Due to the craze for Champagne, these superb red and white Bordeaux, the wines of connoisseurs, sell commonly for a trifle less than a good bot tle of "bubbly." Of course Bordeaux of the very oldest and greatest years, such as Châateau Yquem 1874 or Châateau Haut-Brion...
...fact recent developments indicate that the new craze is on the verge of becoming an intercollegiate sport. The daily paper at Dartmouth has challenged the CRIMSON to a game. No definite plans have yet been made, however, for a tilt between the journalists...