Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador to the U. S., on a vacation in Italy, wishing to devote himself "to matters of land improvement, the administration of his estate and to studies from which public affairs had diverted his attention," pressed Benito to accept his resignation. Benito sadly gave his consent, but requested the Prince to continue in office until the new year. Prince Caetani will sail...
There is old Maum Hannah, squatter, who asked the Lord what to do when a white-trash gentleman built a house on her land and was going to make her tear down her cabin?who got a sign from the Lord, and burnt that house to white fine ashes, such as fell out of her corncob pipe when she prayed. There is Killdee who ploughed on Green Thursday?Ascension Day?the day Jesus went back to God, wherefore he expected to be scourged, and was, for that night his little girl, Baby Rose, was burnt to death in the cookfire...
...barking of coaches and quarterbacks, the thudding of balls and bodies, the grinding, milling rush of the scrimmage line was heard on college practice fields throughout the land. King Football, a popular monarch, entered his 62nd year...
...here, but you will find as you proceed along the homestretch that these are but the first evidences of the feelings which all Americans long to show to you." Said the Daily Worker, bitter sheetlet of Chicago Communists: "Thousands of morons are gathering at Maywood, where the fliers will land, in order to get a glimpse at the red-blooded American pioneers. Special trains will be run and there will be more excitement in Chicago, than if the news had come that the King of Afghanistan had married the Queen of Sheba. . . . "When the airmen recover they will attend...
...buildings are to be built on the opposite side of the Charles River from the Freshman Dormitories, and across the street from the Stadium. At present the site is largely low land with no tree growth, and the landscape treatment must provide as soon as possible an attractive but not too formal arrangement of fences, shrubbery, and trees, around the buildings...