Word: downs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Charter a car and come down to lunch one day. We will have a real rally on the White House lawn. We might even borrow some tents from the Marines and let you camp there all night!"
So the bevy of female newsgatherers hovering around '"Buffalo" (Girl Honorary Scout President Lou Henry Hoover)-for it was she and not Mrs. Herbert Hoover, First Lady of the Land-all squatted down just as though they were beside a campfire in the woods instead of in a Manhattan...
Brookhart: I saw the Senator there. . . . The flasks, as I remember, were under the table and all one had to do was to reach down and get his flask and put it in his hip pocket. The Senator did not do that. I know. He told me he did not...
A Kansas cyclone is a conventional, straightforward sort of catastrophe which comes, blows, goes. More whimsical is a Florida hurricane. Last week residents of Florida's east coast, warned of a hurricane offshore, lashed their awnings, took down their swinging signs, boarded up their show windows, brought home emergency...
For four days Floridans waited thus. Finally a 60-mile gale, offshoot of the loitering hurricane, whooshed down on Miami. Telephone and electric lines were blown down, otherwise there was little damage. Floridans began to call the hurricane a second-rater, when from Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, came delayed...