Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among other little Codgerisms of mine has been the invention of and introduction to the entire world (including the States, through my old friend Mr. Eugene Peton, President of the Patent Scaffolding Co. of New York) of the quaint little old tubular steel scaffoldings you may have seen disfiguring or otherwise your fine buildings here and there...
Near Wilmot is the garnet mine of Harvardman Norman Davenport, whence Henry Ford and General Electric Co. get the garnet used in fine abrasion, glass-polishing...
...with their lot, felt the need of some change. When lovely Ann Moon. Frisby's niece, came over for a London season, and the equally desirable Kitchie Valentine paid a visit to Berry's next-door neighbor, changes came fast & furious. Engagements, false beards, gunmen, a copper mine, burglary, wedding bells are all Wodehumorously manipulated...
Coal Dogs. In a last, great effort to force the coal mine owners of South Wales to accept certain advisory provisions of the Coal Mines Act as though they were binding in law, the Prime Minister declared in a speech at Seaham Harbor...
Retorted the mine owners: "The Prime Minister's speech contains statements that would be astonishing indeed were not allowance made for the fact that Mr. MacDonald sits in Parliament for a mining constituency...