Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Iowa had come a canvas, property of the Des Moines Association of Fine Arts, executed by Artist Eugene Edward Speicher. It showed, baldly speaking, a lady with no clothes on and was simply called, like many another masterpiece, "Nude." The judges found it worthy of $1,000 donated by Capitalist Potter Palmer...
Arthur Capper, potent Senator from Kansas: "Besides my duties as a law maker, I bring joy into many a prairie home with my Cap per's Weekly, famed 16-page clean tabloid hodgepodge. My paper entertains with pictures of Mrs. Leo nard Kip Rhinelander, Iowa's champion grandma, mother and child hippopotami - all sandwiched in between "sillygisms" and other little quips. Fortnight ago, one of my editors conceived this one: 'A great thunderclap shook the earth during a shower. "Wow," exclaimed a colored citizen standing under an awning. "Hell done laid a aig."' But my little...
Died. Robert Waterbury, 486 pounds, at Sioux City, Iowa, of apoplexy. There were ten pallbearers...
Tragic Eighteen. Under brown, rugged ceiling beams, from a row of quaint stalls that-substitute for balcony and gallery in the Charles Hopkins Theatre, the audience follows, sympathetically but a trifle wearily, the fortunes of an Iowa innocent (Neil Martin) on Columbia University's Broadway campus. Even before classes have fairly begun, he is in love with a chorus girl. Mother and brother are powerless to interfere. Not till the unfortunate chorus girl confides that she is possessed of a hidden liability five months old does poor Teddy go back to his books, a sadder and a wiser...
...Illinois' little Granges got together to discourage an Iowa back named Kutsch, and when Kutsch was tired they had an easy time...