Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Classic's wife and brothers owned Louisiana cane sugar mills. The sugar duty came before the Tariff Commission. Commissioner Glassie voted against reduction of the sugar rate, tied the Commission, blocked action, helped Calvin Coolidge out of a 1924 campaign hole. In the Senate he was denounced...
...song plugger is drafted and-runs off to Armentieres, but that basic development takes almost an hour. There is of course, his sister's boy friend whom he distrusts, who he later finds ain't done right by her, and whom he chances to meet again in a shell hole...
...second and last acts are considerably better. The camp at Yaphank, Long Island is amusingly portrayed and the usual soldier cracks go off with unexpected success. The scenes "over there" are short, and after being captured in a shell hole, our hero ends up in a German dugout. He is just about to be executed when the Armistice is announced...
...main collection, of household articles, furnishes a panorama of American inventive improvement. There are, for example, candle moulds and Betty lamps, planes and locks, one of them supposed to have come from the old Pennsylvania state building at Harrisburg. There are augurs which had to be removed from the hole at every turn to get rid of the shaving. Most interesting of all, perhaps, is a funnel-like device with a plunger, called a sausage gun, by means of which our early hot dogs were stuffed...
...Kansas City. Mo., a nicely dressed gentleman entered the Catholic Cathedral. He was Henry J. Schepers. a bill collector. He knelt in prayer in a rear pew. Then, still kneeling, he drew a pistol from his pocket and blew a hole through his head. The bullet pierced a stained glass window with the gleaming legend THY SINS ARE FORGIVEN THEE. The bullet hole made a period for the sentence...