Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leeds Trophy race for sportsmen pilots, Felix William ("Bill") Zelcer, proprietor of Manhattan's famed White Horse Tavern, whipped his Laird in to win. Of five entrants in the strictly amateur derby for the Lawrence trophy, only C. M. Taylor of Little Rock, Ark. crossed the finish line...
...other big futures market, was the heaviest in two years. Even on the spot exchanges in many towns & cities of the South the cotton boom brought wild trading. Atlanta reported more buying orders handled in the last two weeks than in the previous six months. From Mobile, Memphis, Little Rock, Dallas, Galveston the exuberance spread through the highways & byways out into the hot, rich fields of ripening cotton. Most of this year's crop is still to be picked. Profits from the rally will go into the pockets of all growers from the humble renter to the big plantation owner...
...accompaniment of shrill Babu squeals from Hindu lawyers and muffled Moslem mutterings, both Indian round table conferences have foundered on the same rock: the problem of proportional Hindu and Moslem representation in Indian provincial legislatures. Since May 14, 218 people have been killed, more than 2,500 seriously injured in riots over this point...
...oats. At the news of Lee's surrender Tyler was furious, thought he had missed his big chance, meditated going West. Instead he began to call at easy Minnie Scott's when her husband was away. Tyler's wife tried hard to be his better half, but it was rock-like Uncle Lafe who kept his hand to the plough. And to such good purpose that when Uncle Lafe died Tyler had learnt his lesson. The years of stormy peace quieted into real peace at last: Tyler dropped Minnie, took up with his wife, was glad to be a farmer...
...feels his work is done, now that he has reorganized his province, built up his cherished Boston College, erected many & many a Roman Catholic church, school, charitable institution. Hale & hearty as he is, he perhaps tires of Boston, of his lavish three-story Italianate house which, built on a rock ledge, is jarred by passing trolleys and trucks. Perhaps Cardinal O'Connell would prefer to spend his remaining days in tranquil Rome, where stands his titular church, ancient San Clemente, which he has beautified at a reputed cost of $100,000, with a marble bust of himself outside...