Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Moody is five years younger than Governor of Virginia Harry Flood Byrd, brother of Richard E. ("Dicky") Byrd, famed Pole man. Governor Moody is, then, "youngest U. S. Governor." But he is no younger than Sam Houston* was in 1827 when he became Governor of Tennessee...
...they were the result of "dirty" football. Already denials have appeared from men like Treat of Princeton whose opinion is as reliable as Hubbard's. 'There will undoubtedly be more such denials and counter-denials, and the good intentions of Harvard's former tackle will be submerged in a flood of angry publicity which will lead nowhere. "Dirty" football cannot be proved by individual opinion and accusation, by slow movies, or any other such method, because there is always another, and equally good side to the question. The only judge who is competent to accuse and condemn a player...
...narrates copious anecdotes with an evident zest. From the tyrannical Mrs. Johnson who played the lady of better days with tempestuous zeal before her awestricken secretary to the down-hearted young man who found his salvation in the little known occupation, of goldfish expert, many odd and enticing characters flood the pages. There is the demeure girl of many lovers. There is the quiet old gentleman whose wife proved to be a dope flend. There is the tender-hearted but masterful young lady whose happiness, which consisted in reforming others, was inevitably followed by tragedy when some untoward incident broke...
...World, ever militant, chose this circulogical moment to conduct one of its characteristic crusades. It hurled its lead at the publishers and venders of "a flood of fake nude 'art' magazines," which was, to judge by World headlines, contaminating the entire city. Municipal officials were hogtied, it appeared, by equivocal court decisions on the public display of sexy literature. Producer Earl Carroll had been acquitted of his naked posters. Harper's had not been fined for publishing confessions of a whore. Since the Carroll acquittal undressed ladies had posed and posed for commercial photog- raphers?just a small group...
...year in the flood tide of science that the American Association for the Advancement of Science held its annual meeting last week in Philadelphia. It had been the year in which...