Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which it sometimes attempts to be or the soft satiric comedy which it could have been. The slight romance between Linden and a kind-hearted chorus girl (Joan Blondell); his associa tion with a gay and amazingly unresourceful confidence man (Walter Catlett): the bravado of his return to Willow Creek are incidents which a more astute playwright might have been able to develop without recourse to such familiar props of metropolitan melodrama as a slain chorus girl, a gimlet-eyed detective on the wrong track. Linden gulps so hard throughout Big City Blues that he succeeds in swallowing his part...
Commoners (male & female) wear corduroys and overalls, live a communal life which in leisure hours includes swimming in Mill Creek, dancing, group singing, tennis, volley ball and taking siestas under the trees. The Commonwealth College Fortnightly tells of their activities. Excerpts...
...Graham brothers who acquired Paige Motor Co. in 1927; by drowning himself; in Chatham, Ont. His brother, Robert Cabel Graham, and a priest were taking him to the Loyola House of Retreat in Morristown, N. J. after sanitarium treatment for a nervous breakdown. He eluded them, leaped into McGregor Creek. Died. George Shinault, Washington policeman who killed William Hushka in the Bonus army riot (TIME, Aug. 8); of a bullet wound inflicted while breaking up a street fight; in Washington, D. C. Died, Dr. Graham Wallas, 74, sociologist, political scientist, author (Human Nature in Politics, The Great Society...
...junction of Cherry Creek and the South Platte was a natural trail head to the Pike's Peak country. While eager immigrants pressed through to the golden mountains, more & more tarried in Denver, settled there, fought the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, grasshoppers and one another. Saloons were paramount from the first, each with a "fighting ring" to accommodate customers. Rare was a day without a shooting and a spot on the east bank of Cherry Creek became the traditional duelling ground. But new Denverites kept arriving by wagon train and it was a long way back. The nearest rail head...
Shredded Wheat, threw its huge organization into an effort to sell even more shredded wheat biscuits. Breakfast Food Manufacturer Will Keith Kellogg sat up, took notice. Soon Kellogg Co. was also making "shredded wheat biscuits" (Kellogg's Whole Wheat Biscuit), shipped thousands & thousands of them out of Battle Creek, Mich...