Word: elkhart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elkhart, Kan., the Singing Masters' Association convened for a "sing," tried to yodel, couldn't, was forced to abandon efforts for two hours. Cause: Too much fried chicken had been devoured prior to the songfest...
...Comfortably-built Christopher Morley lately spoke, on his "Bowling Green" in the Saturday Review of Literature, of "two stout, elderly, ruddy nabobs . . . the two rotund conductors, Tweedledum and Tweedledee" whom he, during a Chicago-to-New York trip on the Century, saw conferring on the LaSalle Street and Elkhart, Ind., platforms. N. Y. Central men are agreed that Mr. Morley must have seen Conductors Hendrix and Jefferey, of whom only one, however, might be called stout, rotund? Conductor Jefferey. (Conductor Lund may have been Tweedledee to Conductor Jefferey's Tweedledum; he is heavier than Conductor Hendrix. But between Conductors Lund...