Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wake Forest College...
...Committee voted, however, 15 to 1-the U. S. abstaining and Germany voting contra, mundum- that "peacetime effectives" be understood not to mean "trained reservists" or war material to equip them, but to include "military forces under the colors, police, forest guards and any other such organization . . . available without measures of mobilization...
Some of the characterizations can be described by no other word than "immense" in its slangiest sense. Andrew Jackson, rest his democratic soul, is an "old turkey cock, on a forest rock" and later on "his face was a talon, his hands were talons." You do not need to collect postage stamps to know that Andrew Jackson did look like that. Jezebel puts on her various guards and jewels and "stopped the honest prophets as they marched upon their...
Hedwig and Wanda. The Marshal's arrival at Suleiopek precipitated further revelations. To eager news gatherers he confided: "Hedwig's greatest joy is to run barefoot through the forest. Not long ago she ran through some mud and showed me proudly her dirty legs...
...This will be the greatest crowd ever handled by railroads in one day. In 1901 the Great Eastern Railway of England carried 200 -000 to King Edward VII's coronation, the previous record.) The railways will place 600 special guards at crossovers. Several hundred employes of the Cook County forest preserve will watch cross-roads and dispense bedding, fuel and cooking utensils at the many camp sites provided for the touring pilgrims. Auto-repair gangs will patrol the roads. First aid stations will minister to the stricken...