Word: footings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lane of 14-foot cornstalks appeared at the West Branch, Iowa, railroad station. Down it, early one morning, last week, marched Nominee Hoover with his wife and sons. Automobiles carried them through the proudest village in the U. S. to a house of which the original part was a log cabin, where, 54 years and eleven days before, Herbert Clark Hoover had been born. A Mrs. Jennie Scellars, who now owns the house and has declined to sell it to Mrs. Hoover, served up an oldtime Iowa breakfast. On her front porch she drove a fast trade in what...
...Upper Finlay River, British Columbia, one J. Omera, a trapper, suffered frostbite in the four small toes of his right foot. Soon he observed that his bitten toes had become infected. Since there was no surgeon at hand, J. Omera seized a kitchen knife and whittled away for three days until his toes were off. Then he bound up his bloody foot and tramped to Prince George, where a surgeon said he had performed the amputation so efficiently that no further treatment was necessary...
...literary persons associate power. Reason: Lion Feuchtwanger, German writer, wrote a tome known in the U.S. as Power; abroad, as Jud Süss. Austin J. Feuchtwanger (stocks & bonds, onetime flyer) likes power. At Stamford, Conn., last week his fondness for it was demonstrated when the Sally-Too, 32-foot speedboat, was demonstrated, did 61 miles an hour...
...lost his own right leg when he, 13, substituted for a switchman who was off on a post-payday drunk, at a coal mine in Braidwood, Ill. He tried to uncouple two cars of a moving train; his right foot became wedged in a frog and stayed there...
...generation of sport writers looked at this immortal creature scampering about in and out of bunkers, laying approaches dead to the pin and holing 15-foot putts. "The grand old lady of golf," they cried, with customary rudeness. Mr.s. Fox, not in the least embarrassed, went on playing her steady, irreproachable game. Sixteen years ago she became a grandmother. "Afternoon naps?" she said. "None of it for me." In 1923, when she was 62, Mrs. Fox played in the Belleair Heights, Fla., tournament. In the finals she had a medal score of 77 which beat famed Glenna Collett, her opponent...