Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edwards act (where famed Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Georgie. Price. Walter Winchell received their histrionic training). When Groucho was 14, he went to Denver to be boy soprano in a trio. Soon after he arrived his voice changed. He got a job driving a grocery wagon in Cripple Creek, Colo., saved enough for a ticket home and $10 to pay for his food. He lost the $10. An old lady who had a basket of fruit fed him on oranges and peanuts...
...Civic Centre is just south of old Denver where the streets run northwest and southeast along the banks of Cherry Creek. There, where Cherry Creek enters the South Platte, the first cabin was built in 1858 by W. Green Russell & friends, with John Simpson Smith and his squaw Wapoola. Cherry Creek, alternately dry and flooded, divided the settlement into Auraria City (after Russell's hometown in Georgia) and Denver City (after Governor James W. Denver). In 1860 a bridge across the creek was finished, people from both sides met on the bridge by moonlight, shook hands, made speeches...
Thus Minister Johnson turned the other cheek to 60 Japanese bluejackets who the night previous had climbed the high, spiked gate of the International Settlement near Soochow Creek and rushed with fixed bayonets upon a Chinese crowd technically under the protection of the 31st U. S. Infantry. Lunging at these Chinese civilians the Japanese bluejackets wounded ten with bayonet thrusts, knocked down eleven more with blows from their rifle butts and climbed back over the high, spiked gate as the 31st U. S. Infantry rushed upon the scene. Tersely a Japanese spokesman explained that the bluejackets had acted to "punish...
...coast hills at Sovranes Creek...
...fusillade. When the echoes died out among the cold hills the lieutenant approached. Behind the tree the great brown figure lay lifeless, his blood melting dark holes in the soft snow. A week after the wild man's first startling appearance, he was sledged back to North Creek, interred with his secret history...