Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reports said that Floyd Collins had been stolen from his coffin, traced by bloodhounds, and discovered in a burlap sack about 400 yards from the cave. Editors pondered because Floyd Collins, martyr, was a creation of the Press. The Press must be true to its own. What...
...colored the food to make it seem tastier than it was. Aged two, Joan could stagger across the deck and yell "goddamned wind" (picked up from the mate). She thereupon graduated from baby clothes to overalls carved from Stitches' outworn dungarees. Her first nightgown was a flour sack which after many washings still proclaimed her ''Pure as drifted snow." One of her daily chores was to haul up water in a canvas bucket and swab down the poop-deck. As she hauled, one morning, a delicate blue sea-horse drifted by, his head emerging perky from...
Postponement. The British burned most early U. S. census details in the sack of Washington in 1814. Native stock, clear in the early days, was blurred by intermarriage with alien newcomers. Historical data is scant or unreliable. Racial names have become meaningless through social changes. So the 2Oth Century scientists bogged down in confusion and Congress in 1927, postponed the effective date of National Origins to July 1, 1928; later to July 1, 1929, where it now remains...
Hanneken caught (and killed) his first big bandit on Hallowe'en, 1919. It was in the mountainous Capois region of Haiti. Charlemagne Peralte was the name of a blackamoor chief who was leading 700 rowdy followers to sack Grande Riviere. Hanneken, then a sergeant, took a force of 21 men through the witching night. They rushed the camp, killed Charlemagne and nine of his ruffians, escaped to cover. The feat broke the backbone of Haitian banditry. Hanneken got the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...Orville Wright, whom the President extolled, was not present. A train derailment had delayed him. When he arrived and unobstrusively entered the conference hall by a side door, a short grey-haired man in a sack suit, the delegates rose and applauded. He smiled, said nothing, took a seat near Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Later in the sessions, when Col. Lindbergh was summoned to accept the bronze Clifford Harmon trophy, he was obliged to step over Mr. Wright's feet. Nothing was said. A moment later, Assistant Secretary of Commerce MacCracken called Mr. Wright to join Col. Lindbergh...