Word: ground
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France, one Victor Rousoult was walking along the docks where he worked, when a dangling hook caught in the ring on his finger. The derrick from which the hook dangled hoisted ring, finger and Rousoult 100 feet into the air. Comrades saw, shouted. The derrick lowered Rousoult to the ground. When he was within a few feet of landing, his finger tore...
Sued for Divorce. Mrs. Edna C. Hagen; by Golfer Walter Hagen; in Los Angeles, on the ground of desertion. Said he: "I had been kind and indulgent . . . always provided an excellent home . . . used every care for her happiness and welfare...
Followers of the Crime column may be proue to see in the recent taking of a mid-year examination purely for the fun of the thing the machinations of some infernal machine or robot. Certainly there is ground for the suspicion that no average undergraduate has been responsible for the development in the ways of vagabonds announced in another column of this issue of the CRIMSON. But the fallacy latent in the assumption that a mere mechanism produced this battling departure from tradition finds ready exposure in a little reflection...
Shields' face whitened, a spurt of scarlet doused his shirtfront, he tumbled to the ground. The onlookers were men of stone. Suddenly they all laughed loudly. Chagrined and crestfallen. Shields got to his feet. The laughter was hectic and cruel. Abraham Lincoln had loaded his musket with squashy, scarlet-juiced pokeberries...
Last fortnight Dawes House, given to the Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, N. J., by Vice President Charles Gates Dawes in memory of his son, Rufus, burned to the ground. Fifty boys were driven out by the flames. Among them was Dana McCutcheon Dawes, adopted son of the Vice President...