Word: milked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Centennial. San Antonio, Goliad, Washington-on-the-Brazos, Houston, all had claims, as sites of critical events in the year 1836 (see p. 13). So the Centennial arrangers granted every city and village a right to its own celebration, raised practically every local rodeo, county fair, flower show, milk festival, fiddlers' reunion to the rank of a Centennial observance...
Sarah, by the way, is unconnected with the bottle of milk which appears on the steps of Boylston Hall every morning. Some people say that's for the Persian pusay in the Yenching Institute; others that the Psychological Laboratory animals drink...
...like the Wheeling, W. Va., the Louisville, Ky. and the Reno, Nev. exchanges. On the Richmond Stock Exchange Virginians dabble in tobaccos, local utilities, Southern bank and insurance shares. The Seattle Stock Exchange is divided between mining issues and Pacific Coast industries like Jantzen Knitting (bathing suits), Carnation Co. (milk) and Alaska Pacific Salmon...
...patriotic conclusion. He tells of an election night in Manhattan, Roosevelt II's inaugural parade in Washington, Bernard Shaw's speech at the Metropolitan Opera House, a Buchmanite mass meeting, Jane Addams and Chicago's Hull House, a drunken evening with the intelligentsia, a milk strike in upstate New York, Charles E. Mitchell ("a man with a full-fleshed common face and a fierce, unconvincing eye-a man of a low order, caught in suspicious circumstances and hard put to it to talk himself out") on trial for defrauding the Government, his grandfather's house...
...qualified in a preliminary tournament, assembled in the Hotel Astor to fight it out. Most intent spectators wrere moppets who paid 50? to study such intricate maneuvers as the King's gambit, the Alekhine defense. Busiest spectators were waiters who brought the players sandwiches, pitchers of milk or coffee. A scheduled exhibition between a 97-year-old player and a ic-year-old failed to take place when the oldster fell down in his home day before the match...