Word: nard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Capper, potent Senator from Kansas: "Besides my duties as a law maker, I bring joy into many a prairie home with my Cap per's Weekly, famed 16-page clean tabloid hodgepodge. My paper entertains with pictures of Mrs. Leo nard Kip Rhinelander, Iowa's champion grandma, mother and child hippopotami - all sandwiched in between "sillygisms" and other little quips. Fortnight ago, one of my editors conceived this one: 'A great thunderclap shook the earth during a shower. "Wow," exclaimed a colored citizen standing under an awning. "Hell done laid a aig."' But my little...
...Tabor" to any St. Ber. nard boy and he will answer mechanically, "Mr. Jenkins." They were joint headmasters: John Jenkins, a brusque punctilious Englishman with a voice that barks, an eye that explodes, and a mustache that bristles in a futile attempt to conceal the deep and challenging kindness he feels for all lads under 16; Mr. Tabor, a man who looked as if he might have sat as a model, long ago, for Mr. Punch- a very tall, sanguine, athletic Mr. Punch, with a charm that made mothers ask him out to dinner and fathers...
...nard struck the unheeded Ball and Stole...