Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exhibitionism, rampant in many of the denizens of Southern California, sometimes seems to be part of the very air and soil. The warm earth that produces the biggest trees, the most abundant fruits in the U. S., can also shake as it did in 1933. The mild and sunny climate is, like a serenely lovely movie star, also capable of temperamental fits. Any disturbances are naturally more horrifying in what seems in times of calm to be a terrestrial paradise, but last week the capital of Southern California had a climactic climatic experience that would have been shocking even...
...flag of orange, white and dark green-with a spinning wheel rampant on the white-is the banner of the Indian National Congress, the party name of Mahatma Gandhi's followers. Last year the 3,000,000 enrolled, dues-paying members of the party resolved that they must have a physical nucleus, a permanent Congress City of their own at some place completely away from British-dominated cities. Last week this great constructive dream of a multitude of squabbling politicians came to a physical culmination...
Last night a new Harvard publication made its doubt on the Leverett House news stand for the price of one cent. Volume 1, number 1 of the Rampant Bunny, fresh from the mimeograph, was loudly acclaimed by the Rabbits over the dinner table...
Beside the Senate fight between Roadbuilder Bulkley and Roadbuilder White, Ohio was looking forward to one of the liveliest gubernatorial battles of the year. At the Jackson Day dinner in Columbus, Democratic National Committeeman Charles Sawyer jarred many a diner by delivering a harangue against the "corruption and graft rampant" during the two administrations of Democratic Governor Martin Luther Davey. Practical Committeeman Sawyer's unsurprising solution was to enter the gubernatorial primary himself. Tree-Surgeon Davey, who once enjoyed a reputation as a champion of Labor, prejudiced it when he helped break the strike in Little Steel last summer...
...society's shield: a button bearing a top hat with U. S. A. on the crown and a cane and gloves rampant on a blue field. Its slogan: "He who walks backward never stubs...