Word: jam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power is given: " From his own properties Stinnes can light and build my house and supply me with all the utensils I use in it. He can provide me with reading matter, whether daily news or weekly jokes or improving literature. He can feed me meat, bread and jam. He can give me medicine when I am sick, and, when he has cured me, can take me on a pleasure cruise, put me up at his own hotels and actually print the money with which...
...literary but indecent expression, Justice Ford set about outlawing the whole body of literature from the Greek classics to George Moore for everybody, at least in New York State. That was the origin of the Clean Books Campaign wherein the mobilized blue forces of New York are attempting to jam through the legislature the most drastic piece of censorship in American history...
IOWA: An ice jam eleven miles long is holding back the waters of' the Missouri River at Sioux City. Floods in various quarters are already noted, and people in the lowlands down stream are fleeing to escape the flood which is expected when the jam breaks...
Then, of course, the adherents of each party have their own peculiar tastes. Captain Achmed Abdullah has a breakfast, described as "a dignified, almost pontifical institution", consisting of "always fruit always eggs, always three cups of coffee, and always marmalade, honey or jam", while Jaseha Heifetz asks merely for quality not "always" successfully. Two cups of tea and a cigar satisfy. Ed Wynn, but Billy Sunday demands griddle cakes. Mary Garret Hay is perhaps the most unusual. Breakfast appeals to her "not only physically, but esthetically". She ecstatically insists that "a fine bunch of grapes or a golden orange, crisp...
...race at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. This final hour offered the most intense drama ever presented in the great wooden saucer. Oscar Egg and Peter Van Kempen, the Swiss-Holland team, were far in the lead for points when Gastman and Lands, of Newark, caught the field in a jam and stole a lap. With 30 minutes to go the race seemed finally theirs. The veteran Goullet, sensing the exhaustion point at the end of the twenty-second sprint, went after the lap like a bullet. In three reliefs he and his partner had circled the field...