Word: rock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matronly woman with a school of multi-colored children. A matronly woman came by with some brown and some white and some dirty children. I mean some of them were cute; but one was a brat! She threw stones at me; I mean she actually picked up a rock and let it go for all she was worth; and it hit me behind the ear. Behind the ear it hit me; and then the little sissy ran. I mean she hid behind the matron's skirts. It's a damn good thing. I mean I was mad would have spanked...
...Hero Parker's heroics rated the Medal of Honor. On July 18, 1918, the 28th infantry of the A.E.F.'s First division found itself in a tough frontline sector near Soissons. Between it and a troop of French Colonials on its left was a jutting mound and rock quarry from which a nest of German machine guns spat a relentless enfilade fire. Seeing that the U. S. flank would soon be shredded to bits, Lieutenant Parker ordered his platoon and a group of wandering, disorganized French Colonials to follow him up the hill. Few minutes later Lieutenant Parker...
...artist named Azadia Walser Newman. A lynx-eyed redhead with a vague resemblance to Joan Crawford, Portraitist Newman is the daughter of a one-time Democratic National Committeeman, traces her ancestry on her mother's side directly to Charlemagne. Named Azadia after a section of Washington's Rock Creek Park which was once the family estate, she signs her paintings Azadia. Of Sitter Garner she recalled: "He called me 'little lady' and gave me a long talk about caring for my teeth." Crowned Queen Shenandoah XIII of the annual Shenandoah Valley Apple Blossom Festival at Winchester...
...shot him dead. Prospector Voiss was bundled off to jail in San Francisco, indicted for murder. Psychiatrists examined him, ad judged him insane. To police Peter Voiss burst out: "To the crazy house I will not go. It's as if a boy passed you and threw a rock, then passed again and threw an other and another...
John Upley, Latvian blacksmith, tops the revolutionary pictures with one named Revolution in Bed, showing red, undressed small boys roughhousing in bed. A meticulous patriot, he also reproduces a plaque on a Massachusetts rock commemorating the visit in 1775 of John Hancock and Samuel Adams...