Word: packs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge should pack up a galaxy of green silk pajamas and 36 pairs of spats, go jaunting in the Southland, perform like a clown and be hit on the nose by a lollypop at the New Orleans Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday)-he would no doubt be flayed in the press for wantonly neglecting his duty. But an unlimited amount of insouciance is expected and applauded when it is exhibited by Mayor James J. Walker of New York City...
...Crowd. Director King Vidor and Scenarist John V. A. Weaver tell here honestly, finely, the story of an American Everyman, the man in the street, born to run with the pack. They put Eleanor Boardman, wife of Director Vidor, into the role of the wife, where she played with disconcerting beauty. They put James Murray, virile boy, into the part of John Sims, average child, average man. They seated him at a desk, one of a thousand clerks, high in a skyscraper. They sent him, fermenting with spring, to Coney Island with his girl, had him kiss...
...victory in the 40-yard dash was eclipsed by his unexpected appearance and triumph in the 300-yard dash. Rushing to the fore at the crack of the pistol, the giant sprinter justified the confidence Coach Farrell had shown in entering him, by outspending and out-generalling the pack. Unaccustomed to the difficult Mechanics Building corners, he negotiated them perfectly and easily led Glendenning of Dartmouth to the tape...
...first planned to pitch our base camp on the Farnsworth-Treasure Room Plateau, but by dint of much boosting from behind we were able to drive our pack animals higher. Sliding, slipping, going down on all four haunches (something a yak is rarely forced, or even able, to do) the animals somehow reached the General Reading Plateau. Here we pitched Camp No. 1, twenty thousand feet above the sea, one hundred feet above the street car line...
...Illinois State Journal, has just passed to the control of Col. Ira Clifton Copley. One newspaper acquisition at a time is normally enough for growing publishers. Not so Col. Copley. He stretched half across a continent and added almost simultaneously the San Diego Union and Tribune to his pack* of papers...