Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Montpelier, capital of Vermont, near the junction of the Dog and Steven Rivers with the Winooski was one of the places hardest hit. Nearly 40 feet of water entered the city. First reports said 200 had died there. This figure proved 199 too large but entire blocks of Montpelier were destroyed around the foot of Capitol Hill...
...handicap fall pole vault, held yesterday afternoon, F. B. Clark '28, who had been entered at scratch, cleared 12 feet and won the event. C. E. Dunlap '30 cleared a fraction under 11 feet, and with a one foot handicap, took second honors. R. R. Impink '28, with a nine-inch handicap, and F. V. Weeks '30, with a 15-inch handicap, both totalled 11 feet nine inches and tied for third...
...good pieces, among the best being "Maybe," "Clap Yo' Hads, "Do-Do-Do," "Fidgety Feet," and "Someone to Watch Over Me." Frank Crumit as the leading man and Julia--Sanderson, playing the corresponding part in the opposite sex, evidently chosen for their truly excellent voices in casting them for the roles of Jimmie Winters, the much-married hero, and Kay, the bootlegging sister of a bootlegging English duke...
...come out on the short end of the score in a Freshman encounter in six years. Two years ago, however, a Harvard first year eleven, hailed as the greatest in modern Crimson football history and confidently counted on to win in handy fashion over Yale, was swept off its feet and buried under a 24 to '0 score...
...Right Reverend John Gardner Murray, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, walked toward the tomb of the late Bishop William Croswell Doane of Albany, N. Y. The feet of a score of other protestant Episcopal bishops pointed toward the same spot; so, too, the feet of visiting Church of England, Greek and Armenian bishops. Bishop Doane's body lies under the high altar of All Saints' Cathedral at Albany, in whose chancel the bishops last week attended a high mass...