Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Long Island City, N. Y., across the square from a courthouse where an adultress and a corset salesman were on trial for murder, a small man appeared at dawn trundling a wheelbarrow full of lumber. He selected a site, began sawing, hammering, whistling...
When the College first began, the whole life of the community was centered under one roof. In this single building the students lodged, ate, recited and attended divine worship. The building was built of unseasoned lumber, which as it aged, warped and necessitated that the walls be caulked with mud, which frequently proved but poor protection against the rigors of a New England winter...
...President appeared in his office with his right wrist swollen, bandaged. Cause: undefined and perhaps undefinable*. . . . He watched workmen on the roof of the White House, suddenly retreated eight yards. Cause: a crane dangling lumber above his head. . . . Mrs. Coolidge wore a green scarf. Cause: St. Patrick...
Said Senator Schall on hearing of the investigation: "It is a well laid political move, backed by the same big moneyed man, E. W. Backus of Minneapolis." Mr. Backus is a paper-lumber-bankerman...
Historians will not vex themselves with the details of his life. It is recorded that he was born and had some schooling in upstate New York. The Oneida Central Bank employed him at $100 a year. As clerk in a lumber yard in Chicago, they made him load and unload wagons and dropped him when bad times came. He got into a bank and after 42 years quit Chicago, its leading banker...