Word: creek
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having said this and having attended several other of the Nashville talks, President Little then took a train for Battle Creek, Mich., where he presided over the Third Race Betterment Conference...
...that ever held a commission in the A. E. F. would vote for him, but the chance for ever doing so is remote, as his political strength is limited to the banks of Cuyahoga Creek...
...headed their processions. Women joined the marches to mines which were still operating, notably a Mrs. Santa Bernash of Trinidad, whose most famed exploit was scratching and rumpling some guards who tried to detain her at a bridgehead near Ludlow.* Her followers pitched two of the guards into Bear Creek. She was arrested, jailed, and to take her place at the marching picketers' head came her sister, Amelia Siblich, called "Flaming Milka" for the bright red dress she wore...
...Otter Creek, rushing into Rutland, Vt., caused damage estimated at five millions. Wealthy Rutlanders made haste to subscribe to a $500,000 voluntary, statewide fund suggested by Governor Weeks. They will be paid back in emergency state bonds...
...Otter Creek put Rutland, Vt., yards under water. One woman died of fright. Relatives of the late Governor Percival Wood Clement were marooned in their hilltop mansion. Railway trackbeds were so deranged they may not function again until next spring...