Word: flagstaffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turnkey in the Flagstaff county jail, Ashurst read Blackstone voraciously, later took up the law. At 21 he was elected to the territorial legislature, then to the territorial senate. In 1912, when Arizona was admitted to statehood, he was a natural choice for one of the state's first two U.S. Senate seats (the other: Marcus A. Smith...
...afternoon, when the white pennant rippled on the flagstaff of the Globe, signifying the performance of a play, the Thames was a bazaar of haggling, blue-coated boatmen ferrying several thousand eager customers crossriver to the prison district of the Clink, where the playhouses had retreated from puritanical city magistrates. The fops gossiped and smoked onstage. Jostling one another and munching sausages in the penny standing room of the pit were the groundlings and "stinkards," men who had unfurled canvas with Drake, but could not read or write. From next door at the Paris Garden came the snarls of mastiffs...