Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening game of the annual tournament of the Head-of-the-Lakes semiprofessional baseball association. The field was beside the railroad yards in Superior. Long freight and ore trains trundled by constantly. President Coolidge threw in the first ball and the first battery knocked it out-of-the-lot.* Mrs. Coolidge munched chocolates and watched vivaciously. John Coolidge, though there were many hits, errors, wild throws, etc., looked badly bored. The President left after the third inning-his baseball custom...
...Carolina and Connecticut Fight an old quarrel out before a ghost? . . . And from the mountains, came reluctant stragglers wondering just who their enemies were: "Dunno's I rightly know just who they air," He admitted finally, "But 'tain't the British. It's some trash-lot of furriners, that's shore. They call 'em Yankees near as I can make it. ..." but he was content that his neighbors, of long standing feud, were with the enemy Yanks. And there were others, non-fighters: The congressmen came out to see Bull Run, The congressmen...
...When We got there we could hear them cursing. I broke into the place and found them reeling about like a lot of drunken hogs. It was the worst mess I ever saw. Bottles were being hurled about, men were fighting and two of them attacked me. We arrested the bellhop as he was serving liquor. [They] destroyed a whole bathtub of bottled liquor which was packed...
...were the stories told last week in Omaha by one Mat Greevy and the Omaha World-Herald. Newsgatherers considered the stories so improbable that they did not bother to seek denial or confirmation from busy Nominee Hoover, whose door is guarded by a chubby secretary and the expletive: "A lot of foolish nonsense!" (see LETTERS...
...this tribunal to weigh against her the evidence of these officers and take her alone against the lot of them. The suggestion I make is that the officers [who examined Miss Savidge] thought they were not failing in their duty, if they helped to ensure that there should be no prosecution for perjury [of the constables who falsely arrested...