Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week caught the hiccups. For three nights its pen, in Birmingham, Ala., echoed with a silly incessant guffaw. Owner of the pig, one Joseph St. George, deprived of sleep, surveyed his eccentric porker. He ordered a large plate of "swill" to be brought. This the pig ate greedily and continued hiccupping. Mr. St. George whacked the pig's back with a trowel; still the idiotic grunts continued. Then Mr. St. George soaked the pig with ice cold water; no cure. At last Joseph St. George came with a little perfumed sponge which he pushed against...
...President & family attended church, accompanied by U. S. Senator from Connecticut Hiram Bingham and the Senator's son, Woodbridge Bingham. Rolf Lium, student preacher of the Hermosa Church, gave his last sermon of the summer. When the collection plate was passed, the Coolidges, consistently impressed by the young man's ability, contributed to a $50 purse which members of the parish tendered Rolf Lium in addition to his monthly salary of $50. Mrs. Coolidge shook hands with Rolf Lium after the service and secured his mother's address...
...Geneva, a mob of 5,000 took possession of the city. They smashed about $40,000 worth of plate glass and merchandise in their fellow-citizens' shop windows. They badly damaged the Palace of the League of Nations, to which the U. S. does not belong. Police protected the U. S. Consulate and U. S. Consul Somerville Pinkney Tuck avoided trouble by a quick-witted remark. As he moved, unrecognized among the rioters, a woman stuck a nasty, leering face close to his and shouted loudly: "We wish to kill this American Consul pig!"* "Yes," said Mr. Tuck...
Under halting organization is the proposed Chesapeake & Ohio system of the Van Sweringens (C. & O., Nickel Plate, Erie, Hocking Valley and Pere Marquette...
...Frank E. Taplin of Cleveland, who mines coal in the Pittsburgh region. He controls the short and profitable Pittsburgh & West Virginia; wants to buy control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie, control of which John D. Rockefeller Sr. recently sold to the N. Y. C., B. & O. and Nickel Plate. Promoter Taplin would also control the Western Maryland over which he would reach tidewater with Pittsburgh coal and Great Lakes grain and iron...