Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...makes the sap rise in human beings as well as in cherry trees and Col. Grant is the sworn foe of human sappiness in Washington's public parks. His was the campaign last year against "spooning, necking and petting" by night in automobiles along the Speedway and through Rock Creek Park. Now that the cherry trees are coming out, the motives of parking motorists may soon again disturb the peace of the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital...
...most states the adjournment of the legislature is an incident of interest only to the politically-minded. In Arkansas a fortnight ago it was a capital event, at least to the Haley Potato Chip Co., whose manager placed in the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette this advertisement...
...those now in the cases, was created in 1793, when the ominous influence of the French Revolution was beginning to penetrate into England. In the engraving Pitt is steering Britannia in the snugly-built ship "Constitution," between Charybdis, the ministers of the Crown, and Scylla, a towering threatening rock capped by the colors of France. True to her attitude at that time, the fair maiden England is heedless of Charybdis, but is gazing fearfully at the rock and the sea dogs swarming around its base, representing, in ugly caricatures, the famous trio of Fox, Sheridan, and Priestly...
...Little Rock...
...international army, not especially British. If the idea prevails that one nation dominates, that is the rock on which we may split...