Word: foresters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over Congo swamps, diamond mines, cannibals, palm oil factories, pigmies, ivory hunters, and savage, slimy, man-eating crocodiles. Also Their Majesties sailed a thousand miles down the mighty River Congo (larger than any other except the Amazon). By way of climax, they skirted the edge of the Great Pigmy Forest, one of the gruesome wonders of the world. Appalling, it is a place from which dense, choking creepers and great trees shut out the sun. In the gloom spiteful brown pigmies plant poisoned stakes and shoot poisoned arrows, to keep out both white men and black...
...baseline neither Jacobs nor any other woman has the ability of Wills. Valiantly but with many an error Jacobs sped the ball toward her opponent's backcourt boundary, thereby failed to win from Wills the national women's singles championship. After the match Wills rested in the Forest Hills, L. I., clubhouse, resumed play. Paired with Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, she won the doubles title against Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper & Miss Edith Cross. Wills and Molla Bjurstedt Mallory are the only women who have won the singles title five or more times. Mallory won it seven times officially...
Flip! The first service was spun. Into action sprang Helen Wills and Mrs. J. Saunders Taylor in the 41st annual women's championship tournament at Forest Hills, L. I. Twenty-two minutes later they shook hands, Miss Wills a 6-0, 6-1 victor over Mrs. Taylor...
Gravely, the Lake Forest city council deliberated...
Wisconsin Ave., Lake Forest, is definitely within the residential district. And within such districts the operation of commercial enterprises is definitely against the law. And one Thomas Carroll had protested the activities of a Mrs. Carrie Strom, his neighbor. Said Mr. Carroll: "Mrs. Strom hangs lingerie in her back yard. She runs a laundry. A laundry is a commercial enterprise...