Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day, the convention opened. Mr. Lewis flayed the radicals. Casting an eye at Mr. Brophy, whom he had easily defeated for President, he said: "I could tell of slimy things." Radicals cowered. They continued to cower until, two days later, Radical Hapgood rose to criticize. Mr. Lewis pounded the desk, eyes flashing. He smelled a fight. "If you say another word," said he, "you'll have to be ejected" (on the grounds that he was not entitled to a seat). The young man hit a sergeant-at-arms on the left shoulder, but no one came to his rescue...
When the population of British America was about 2,000,000, Nicholas Fish, 18, rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in Washington's Army...
...their rooms; bull dogs but a short time since graced their appearance on the street, or afforded them pleasure in secret brutal contests. . . . When we consider the morbid state of mind possessed by those collegians who night after night sat before the footlights of the notorious Soldene, and rose after each act in a body to resort to a liquor saloon near by, we are not surprised at other (perhaps but little lower) exhibitions of a mind thoroughly imbued with an immoral and contaminating influence...
...Cornell star, McAllister and Charles in the 60 yard race. Leon Murchison, Frank Hussey, Jackson Schoiz, and Ernest Morrill will leave the marks in the second heat. The two leaders of each dash will clash in the 50 yard finals. Murchison had not lost a race at the Mill rose games in four years, but he may not show his usual speed tomorrow night, as he pulled a tendon during the last indoor season...
...wrote on every other line. Meanwhile six proctors are rushing to his aid, the head proctor in his haste forgetting the table in front of him and taking a headlong live on to the floor, thereby hurting himself not a little. Overcome, I jump out of the west rose window and hastily repair to Wadsworth House for a little special instruction in mental hygiene...