Word: groves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They took Hubert Rampley out and flogged him. They did not think he should keep company with Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Skidmore, who had not yet secured her divorce. The floggers, sentenced to seven months in jail, were five, deacons all of the Atkins Avenue Baptist Church, Cedar Grove...
...Ocean Grove, N. J., the Ku Klux Klan, women members included, thronged an auditorium to the number of 8,000, listened to such statements as: "We must get back to the teachings of our mothers; and if we had lived up to those teachings, there would be no need for the Ku Klux Klan or any other organization in America today. If you are loyal to your mother, you are loyal to your country...
...lives in an old-fashioned brick house with 15 rooms, has a big library and (so it is said) 100 pipes?briars, corncobs, clays, calabashes. He likes Oriental rugs, is somewhat of a naturalist (collects birds' nests), owns a maple grove. He bought a tumbled-down place about 15 miles from Ludlow and uses it as a fishing club?he loves fishing. His automobile is good but old?old and paintless. There are nine clocks in the room where he works, for one of his hobbies is repairing clocks. Mr. Sargent is, in Republican state politics, quite a power...
...Grove Patterson of The Toledo Blade protested against the indiscriminate publication of details in scandal cases, citing the recent cases of Percy Stickney Grant, the blackmailed rajah, Leonard Kip Rhinelander...
...always afternoon in Montauk; there whisper trees more shadowy than any that ever stooped their boughs in Eden; gods live there and fairies, so says the brush of Mr. Hassam. Diana as Spring bursts arrowy-footed through the wood, paling with her whiteness the white dogwood blossom; in The Grove of Aphrodite nymphs move to pipes unseen, sentineled by poplars; Dryads dance upon a blowy hill against a far horizon. It is not strange, then, that one of Mr. Hassam's canvasses should depict no less a scene than Adam and Eve Walking out in Montauk in the Early...