Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general impression has been that Mr. Farish is much older than Mr. Teagle. Mr. Teagle is 59, Mr. Parish 56. Mississippi-born, a graduate of the University of Mississippi (Class of 1900), a short-time Mississippi lawyer (in Oxford), Mr. Farish joined the oil rush to Texas after the discovery of the famed Spindletop field at the Century's turn. Working as a roustabout, he saved his pennies, kept an eye peeled for big money. He went into partnership with Robert Lee Blaffer and out of their small beginnings grew Humble Oil Co., the mighty company which Standard...
After these miner lapses, however, there is a rush toward better things. "The Criminal Record" guides the reader expertly through five masterpieces of 'tee' literature, and serves as a fitting prelude to the agony columns that have made the "Saturday Review" famous and may do the same for the "Advocate". The Personals and the Classified ads alone make this issue worth any man's, or, better still, any maid's, quarter. There is also a double-crostic, no harder to work than those Mrs. Kingsley usually presents. The faint Limerick tinge to this one merely shows we are in Boston...
...doctors and reformers who pioneered U. S. psychiatry, Benjamin Rush showed the greatest ingenuity, Dorothea Dix (credited with founding or improving 32 mental hospitals) the greatest energy. Better known to present-day readers is Clifford Beers, whose autobiography, A Mind That Found Itself, published in 1908, created a sensation by exposing his typically brutal treatment in private, endowed and State hospitals during a three-year stay. On the crest of the ensuing public indignation was launched the modern mental hygiene movement, which during the World War received an impetus like neurology in the Civil War. When IQ tests tried...
...persons she took at a gulp, and before midday she had finished off more than half the men of the Fiana. She swallowed the son of the King of Greece, and the son of the Fiana's captain, Finn Mac Cool. Thereupon that hero gave a sudden rush, gripped the monster by one of her joints, and flipped her over on her back...
Opened last week by the arrival of the season's first boat was a rip-snorting gold rush into the Goodnews area of southwestern Alaska. In three days no less than 50 airplane flights were made from Anchorage, bearing prospectors to the sands of Kuskokwim Bay, where gold, platinum and palladium strikes had been reported. Overnight a tent city sprang up on the beach with all the trimmings of Klondike days, including a gaming brawl which required the attention of a Federal marshal and the ministrations of one Alice Forsgreen. "the lady barber" of nearby Bethel, who doubles...