Word: journey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State prison near Montgomery for safe keeping. The familiar rumblings of lynch preparations were loud and ominous. But Governor Bibb Graves declared: "There will not be a lynching in Alabama if I can prevent it." He called out 200 National Guardsmen to protect Bouyer "at any hazard" on his journey to Eufaula for trial. The courtroom resembled an armed camp. Bouyer was convicted in ten min utes, sentenced to death, pleaded for a quick execution. Like a person of impor tance, he was then carried back to prison in a special train...
...JOURNEY'S END-English gentlemen in a World War dugout, emotionally stripped for action (TIME, APRIL...
Balmy Portland, Ore., last week well entertained what at torrid Minneapolis last year its representatives had fought and bargained for, the 80th convention of the American Medical Association. Portland is an expensive journey from the populous midwest and eastern medical centres, so the convention was not so well attended as have been most other recent ones. More nearly centralized, although hot, Detroit will have next summer's convention...
...Marlow and during the U. S. rowing season losers of only one race. Eliminating the Westminster Bank crew in the first heat, Columbia stroked to a one-length victory in the second over the Kingston Rowing Club boat, coached by R. C. Sheriff, young insurance-broker author of Journey's End, current War play. Columbia was eliminated in a windy third heat by the heavier crew of Trinity College, Cambridge...
...Nina last year. Then the 59-foot Marconi-rigged schooner, reversing the journey of the Nina of Christopher Columbus after which she was named, won the Queen of Spain's cup. There was a $20 gold piece nailed on the after-end of the dog house, a prize for the first to sight land after the U. S. coastline had narrowed to invisibility. Luis, the Norwegian cook, won it. When the ship arrived at Santander a smart swarthy person greeted her from the deck of his yacht and explained: "I am the King of Spain." The crew was embarrassed...