Word: helter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington was like a village on the eve of a barn dance. Guests bustled and bundled into town on every train.. There was a buzz of greetings, a helter-skelter of calls, a busy matching and arranging of programs. The White House received an ample quota of the more dis- tinguished guests as callers. The Administration, a thoroughgoing host, prepared all for the opening of the 70th Congress. To the White House came...
Lord Dawson of Penn, personal physician to the British Royal Household and to Edward of Wales,* last week testified that birth control was an excellent thing. Said he: "To ask this generation to go back to the helter-skelter method of having families is like crying for the moon." He could find no evidence of physical or moral harm from the practice of birth control, nor did he have any respect for "gloomy forebodings as to the break-up of family life...
...Black Sea coast was last week visited by a succession of earthquakes. People ran helter-skelter seeking safety; confusion reigned. Many sought refuge in boats, with what success despatches did not state...
...increased to several times that number. During our trip into Arkansas we were constantly passing rickety wagons, carts and occasional autos holding the families of the refugees, and all the worldly possessions they had been able to save. Chairs, beds, tables, springs, and poultry seemed to have been piled helter-skelter. The draft animals looked very poor and scrawny, and there were so many people moving that it seemed almost like a migration...
Came dawn. And the Student Vagabond reached for his Encyclopedia, Shelley's "Works", and a cigarette. And then, helter skelter, he went roaming around the Yard in his cavalier pink robe de nuit searching the most delightful little lectures possible...