Word: depots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Servant in the House' and such like, the young bloods of Charlotte were doing far worse things than going to the theatre. Indeed, the town was a sink of iniquity. Also there was an exodus to Canada of most of the men folk and the women folk blocked the depot waiting for copies of "Love Life in Nature". So we sent to the city for a burlesque show, and now all' is all right in Charlotte. Your friend--Hezekish Hemple, Committee on Morals, Charlotte, Vermont...
Chicagoans who like nothing better than a good noisy demonstration at "the depot" had a splendid one last week. In came a train bearing a burly moose of a man with hands, feet and a smile which any politician might envy. And that was what he was, a politician, onetime Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, now chairman of the Illinois waterways commission. He had come from Washington and when the brass bands had followed him to a hotel he shouted, "Let them come...
...while Marcus Loew responded by dashing perpetually from one to another. Then, tired of Pullman cars, he bought, for a million dol lars, the Long Island palace of the late and notorious Captain De La Mar, mineral millionaire. There, with miles of lawn, a garage as big as a depot, a private golf course, a swimming pool, he enjoys thg amenities that life offers to the successful-among them, now, a bit of ribbon...
Last week the Naval Court of Inquiry, headed by Admiral Robert E. Coontz, reported the results of its investigation into the causes of the recent explosions in the Naval ammunition depot at Lake Denmark, N. J. (TIME, July...
...location of the depot, the type, number, location and protection of magazines and the manner of storage of explosives therein were all in accordance with approved practice for governmental depots...