Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commander Byrd. Virginia has been proud of its Byrds ever since William Byrd fought Indians in 1683. Today there are three famed Byrd brothers-"Tom, Dick and Harry." Harry F. Byrd is Governor of Virginia. Capt. Thomas D. Byrd, U. S. Army retired, served with distinction in the World War, now manages a vast apple farm in Maryland. Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd is the outstanding scientist-aviator...
There was Coolidge gone off to fill the great open spaces with his silence. And my little roommate began to make noises like this, "Bang, Bang", as he thought of Dead Eye Dick, Nervous Nelly and all of the old gun toting sons of guns out where our gay President is to don his overalls for the summer publicity...
...Author. Born in Tennessee, with the current century, "Dick" Halliburton romped through Princeton University more bareheaded than most, running cross-country, editing a pictorial magazine, taking astonishing vacations, by the age of 21. Then he romped around the world in tramp ship forecastles, called it The Royal Road to Romance, said he was "living poetry instead of writing it." He talks volubly, cracks many jokes, threatens to write a novel called Hell...
From a Cabinet Minister, such a Deadwood Dick account was white hot news. But what of the Presidential announcement of the burning to death of Senora Refugia Obregon Ponce de Leon? That confessed War Minister Amaro, had been a slightly premature announcement. The Senora Ponce de Leon had been expected to travel by the attacked train but, actually, she remained safe at Guadalajara. Disgusted correspondents who had cabled this news as fact throughout the world, resolved to cable no more until eye-witness refugee's arrived from the scene of atrocity. They came on a special train which steamed...
...second dance of the Harvard and Radcliffe Graduate Schools' Society will be held in Agassiz House on April 1, from 8.30 until 12 o'clock. Music will be furnished by Dick Bowers' Venetian Orchestra...