Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phenomenal majority collected by Dwight W. Morrow of New Jersey in a Republican Senatorial election forecasts a rather busy future for the Drys. They attempted to stuff Middle Western support into the hole in the dyke but the wet Eastern pressure seems to be too much, and in addition, this same Middle Western assistance is by no means so efficient as the arms of young Dutch boys...
...from Avalon, his estate at Princeton, N. J., last week sallied Dr. Henry van Dyke, 77, Presbyterian, verbally to thrash Dr. Clarence True Wilson, 58, Methodist, for Dr. Wilson's insults to Dr. van Dyke's father, the late famed Dr. Henry Jackson van Dyke of Brooklyn. Dr. Wilson, general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, had written a report, kept secret until dragged forth by the Senate Lobby Committee, on the Board's war against the "foes" of Prohibition before the 1928 presidential elections. Dr. van Dyke was perplexed to find himself...
Retorted Dr. van Dyke last week: "Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of something or other has made a public attack upon me which is of no consequence because it is so evidently false. His middle name is a mistake...
...Elizabeth, a son, Franz Schubert, named for his father's favorite composer. Manager Dykstra's mother named him Addison while she was reading the Spectator Papers. Last week in Cincinnati he declared that he was a descendant of the semi-legendary Dutch boy who plugged a leaking dyke with his finger, explained: "Finger-in-dyke-hence the name Dykstra...
Yale will be represented by R. B. Fulton, R. G. Osterweis, P. W. Hoon, and H. G. Dyke. A second Eli team will meet Princeton Saturday night, at New Haven, in a debate upon the same subject...