Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friends tell one another, is my most important characteristic. Then too, as everyone knows, I love flowers, am an able gardener, play the piano, keep an accurate baseball score, knit. An enterprising researcher once announced that I am the first co-ed to be the First Lady of the Land...
Chicago's "outer drive" (speedway over reclaimed lake-swamp land from North Side to South Side) will be named for Viking Leif (pronounced Life) Ericsson. Reason: he may have discovered America before Columbus; Columbus is now commonplace as thoroughfare designation; local Norwegians were active...
...tale to this effect was telegraphed throughout the land. Next day, Representative Sinnott, of Oregon said the tale was correct except that Correspondent Brown had nothing to do with it. He, Sinnott, had managed the whole joke...
...There are ten acres of land in France that are a disgrace to the State of Massachusetts. . . . Nine acres of that land was bought by the people of Massachusetts in 1920, for $20,000, to become a War Memorial; and the tenth acre was given by the adjacent community of St. Mihiel. . . . The Sacred Rocks of St. Mihiel overlook that land. Moreover it is on the main highway between St. Mihiel and Verdun. . . ." Thus cried Representative Slater Washburn of Worcester in the State Legislature of Massachusetts last week, and went on to explain himself as follows...
...idiotic rubbish to talk of people protecting their lives with a pistol. A notion seems to be abroad in the land that the people have rights to protect themselves and must have a revolver to do so. We ought to ask the chiefs of police here if they know of a single case in which a citizen was helped in an encounter with a gunman by being armed himself...