Word: floods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After services in the Baptist Church at Charlottesville-conducted by a Presbyterian, with a sermon by a Methodist * -the President shook hands with Governors Angus W. McLean of North Carolina and Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, who escorted him to the mansion of President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia for a buffet lunch. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was there. President Coolidge twitted Governor Byrd about a cartoon in the Richmond Times-Dispatch which showed a Southern.Colonel peering through a knothole in the fence of a football field. A sign on the fence said: "Football, Thanksgiving Day-University...
...just after Mr. Hoover was nominated and before his resignation was accepted. It sounded very familiar, being largely a replica of its author's campaign speech. "Fiscal 1928," said Mr. Hoover, "had continued the high economic activity which has become characteristic of American industry." He cited the Mississippi flood, the cotton depression, and a temporary abeyance of motor-making (Ford's style change), as the causes of a recession of indices last fall which was recovered last spring. He said: "Unemployment was relatively unimportant . . . the rate of real wages and the standard of living of the masses...
...afternoon sees the Harvard hockey squad working out on a vast sheet of ice, and on the same evening enormous flood lights show great banks of faces gathered around the squared circle of the prize ring...
Secretary Davis prepared to set off to inspect personally the progress of another thing in which his Department is concerned, Mississippi flood-control...
...presence in the firing squad. Suddenly German shells dropped and the whole crew were tumbled into a nearby cellar. A convenient priest began to read from the Bible the story of Noah's Ark. By a series of titles it was prodded home that war is like the Flood. Then the picture suddenly dipped back several centuries and went into the story of that wide inundation...