Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...closely followed by a Peerless sedan. Crowding the Hudson to the gutter, the Peerless paused to belch a noisy blast of powder and lead slugs from several pump guns. Then it vanished toward the neighboring hamlet of Moosic, where it was abandoned, the occupants slipping away into a dense forest. In the shattered Hudson on Railroad Street lay Alexander Campbell, labor leader, and his friend Peter Reilly, both of them horribly dead...
...frequency and magnitude of modern wars." Thus postulated, at Manhattan ast week, Herr Doktor Will Hohner, on of him who founded the famed M. Hohner Harmonica Co. in 1856. Herr Doktor Hohner, who had just landed from he liner Berlin, continued: "Our factories at Trossingen in the Black Forest still employ twice as many workers as before he World War. . . . The Boer War was chief cause operating to produce the introduction of the harmonica into South Africa. . . . Japan might still be without he pleasures to be derived from the harmonica had it not been introduced there with a view...
...twenty eight, no mask or visor shall be upon the helmet of the regalia of any Klansman. It shall therefore be unlawful for any Klansman to wear any mask or visor as part of his regalia, and each Klansman . . . shall . . . become a member of the Knights of the Great Forest...
...repetitious, childlike pomposity of this "edict" is not quite an accurate index of Wizard Evans' mental calibre, for with the edict went a rider. Wizard Evans, who gained his knowledge of human nature as a dentist, had invented the "Knights of the Forest" as a painless method of extracting $1 from each & every Klansman. Salaries had to be paid, and it would have been unwise to levy an unembellished assessment. The "Knights of the Forest," therefore, constituted an obligatory degree palliated by the following ritual...
Softly from Scotch bagpipes there sounded, last week, in the depths of Westminster Abbey, that lilting, infinitely plaintive tune, The Flowers of the Forest. One of many hundreds who harkened and wept slow, heartfelt tears was a great statesman who sometimes appears too slick, too superficial and too dapper...