Word: garters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month Ernest Davis, water department foreman of St. Charles, Ill., saw in the corner of the municipal pump-house a 10-in. garter snake entangled in a spider web. How the snake got in its predicament neither Foreman Davis nor anyone else knew. Next day Foreman Davis looked to see if the snake was still there. It was. With threshing tail it had ripped the web to shreds, but several strands still held its head fast. The spider, warily keeping to the upper part of the web, was busily spinning fresh strands to strengthen...
From Chicago the Illinois Humane Society dispatched an indignant note to Mayor Langum, threatening prosecution. One night last week Mayor Langum quietly made his way to the pumphouse, unlocked the door. His flashlight glittered on a pair of scissors. The Mayor snipped. Next day St. Charles's garter snake was fed milk in a corner of the pumphouse, later exhibited in a jar in the window of a butcher shop. On the jar was a sign: O LORD. PLEASE HELP ME TO KEEP MY NOSE OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S BUSINESS...
...Joseph Austen Chamberlain, today 68, who retired with the Garter after winning the Nobel Peace Prize as British Foreign Secretary (TIME...
...Author-Publisher Lord Gorell include: Babes in the African Wood; Rosamund; Plush; Gauntlet (1931). To the Baron last week Prince George wrote a gracious acknowledgment on the stationery for which he recently designed his own monogram: an Old English G, surmounted by a coronet and surrounded by the Garter. (Same monogram on his handkerchiefs.) "Prince George is," declared a St. James's Palace spokesman recently, "the artist of the Royal Family. He plays various instruments and improvises even better than the Prince of Wales." Three, even two years ago Palace spokesmen were saying that King George was grooming Prince...
...spirit should move them. Then to each there came that inner voice, whispering to men of Dunster, "blue and gold," murmuring to sons of Winthrop "red and white." The colors conceived that day were brought forth only a few days ago by a haberdasher. Himself a knight of the garter, and true kin of the man who created Father's Day to sell more ties, he invoked the spirit of Dunster devotion, of Leverett loyalty, to ring up his cash-register. He had samples made, he set silk-mills a spinning with a three hundred dollar check; and presently...