Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was stroke of the crew, captain of the football and baseball teams, "ran the 100 in ten seconds" (despite his 6 ft. 4 in. and 210 Ibs.), shot, swam, boxed, wrestled. He started work with pick and shovel in a coal mine, being an active member of the miners' union (Knights of Labor...
...ning. According to McGeehan, Siki strolled into the Baltimore Hotel, Memphis, where Norfolk was sitting with a black girl. Siki advanced to pay his respects. Unhappily, Norfolk, ignorant of French, assumed insult. He stared at Siki with all the enthusiasm of the cold and clammy blackness of a coal mine. Siki started fighting on the spot. McGeehan deplored Siki's amateur attitude in this unbusinesslike proceeding. Said he: "If Siki goes around the country fighting for nothing, one shudders to think what will become of the great cauliflower industry...
...Many people ask me how I learned to be a comic," he said. "When I was a boy, I worked all through the day in the coal mines. When I got up in the morning it was dark, and when I got to the mine it was still dark. Down in the mine it was darker yet, and at night, when I came up, it was dark again. And that's how I learned to be a comic...
...glad Mr. Asquith's speech on that subject has received scanty support in the best informed quarters. . . . It was ill founded as an exposition of the practice of the Constitution. Delivered when it was, it was meant far more for the King's ears than for mine, or for any one else...
...Bascom Slemp, Secretary to President Coolidge: "It became known that John Fox, novelist and one-time husband of Fritzi Scheff, was a boyhood friend of mine in Virginia, that we often went fishing, that I am said to be the original of a character in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine...