Word: kit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol steps with Father Cox, Senator James John Davis and Representative Clyde Kelly of Pennsylvania received the army's petition for "the God-given right to work," heard them swear allegiance to the flag and sing "America," "Keep The Home Fires Burning," "Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag." Their petition was read to House and Senate that afternoon...
...lack fine discrimination when you say under "In Reno."' June 15, "True to the canons of Wild Bill Hickok and Kit Carson. . . ." Every western writer of "westerns" knows that Hickok was a two-gun law man; one of the genuine gun fighters of the West. That Kit Carson was a "mountain man" of the fur trader period; a time before the gunslinging, gunfighting period when "Colt was King" at Dodge...
...converted Navy submarine with which Explorer Sir George Hubert Wil- kins expects to prowl like a polliwog under the Arctic ice next summer, cruised last week from its shipyard at Camden, N. J. to New York Harbor. Sir Hubert, with a fresh medal in his kit,* walked the gangplank to a Brooklyn dock and stood by while the curious eyed his beard and submarine...
...cheers, horseplay. Speaker Longworth, in a farewell speech-from-the-throne, recognized that it might be his last term as presiding officer. The Marine Band Orchestra was led by Representative La Guardia of New York. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida sang "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag" as she used to sing it in War canteens. The Speaker played on the piano while Virginia's Woodrum sang "Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny." It was all very merry, the most noisy and exciting closing in years...
...feel at all cocky over your knowledge of English literature have a look at this catechism. The authors may spare the local teaser about who killed Kit Marlowe, but they have up their sleeve a few new ones that would make a Divisional paper blush...