Word: pike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second-rate episode in the third-rate War of 1812 was General Zebulon Montgomery Pike's expedition with 2,500 men in April 1813, across Lake Ontario against York (now Toronto), a village important only as the capital of Ontario. The U. S. soldiers took York after a little skirmishing and raided the Parliament House. On the table of the House lay the legislative assembly's official mace. Over the Speaker's dais was a canopy surmounted by a wooden figure of the British lion. Over the mace was what Commodore Chauncey, who had ferried Pike...
...order for $16 worth of livery hire at Pike's livery, will be sold for $12.00.--A. A. Waterman...
...this occasion the Smoker Committee secured the services of George Watts, a negro dancer; Raymond Pike, a juggler; and Lewis Mora, a magician. A large supply of pipes, tobacco, cigarettes, and refreshments were provided. When the Class had assembled Garrow T. Geer, Jr., toastmaster and Chairman of the Smoker Committee, introduced the three officers of the class: Thomas H. Bilodeau, Jr., president; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., vice-president; and Anthony S. J. Tomasello, secretary-treasurer, who made short speeches...
Featured by a speech by President Conant and by several outside entertainers, the annual Freshman Smoker will be held tonight in the dining room of the Union, at 8 o'clock. The committee, headed by Garrow T. Geer, has acquired the services of Raymond Pike, a juggler, George Watts, a negro comedian and dancer, and Lewis Mora, a magician, who will furnish the entertainment...
...Jersey the storm blocked the huge Brunswick Pike. At one point, near Princeton, 250 motorists left their cars in snowbanks, put up for the night in filling stations, farms, hot dog stands. Chesapeake Bay shipping was partially paralyzed. The Eastern Shore of Maryland lay buried under a foot of snow. The gale lashed its angry tail when it reached Washington, ripped a huge hanging lantern out of the White House porch. In northern Florida, the storm threatened to wreck the citrus fruit crop with subfreezing temperatures at Jacksonville...