Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When no further reports came in, flyers said: "Probably some damn fool trying to be spectacular." But oldtime seamen had another theory: now that the sea has taken so many lives in airplanes, perhaps there is a Flying Dutchman of the Air; an outbound plane that mariners will hear and see sometimes, far at sea, on dirty nights for flying...
...Garlic Creek became the Chicago River. In 1861 Cook County offered $300 for each substitute, to keep the county free of conscription. In 1867 Chicago "had the pick of the best food and nothing remained but to know how to cook it." Bismarck, campaigning against the French, said to General Sherman: "I wish I could see that Chicago...
...Indiana one man said: "If Harrison's mayor [of Chicago] I'm going to the Fair, but I'm going to wear nothin' but tights and carry a knife." MacMonnies molded a statue; George Pullman put up cigar money; the Fair was held. The day it closed Mayor Harrison got three lead shots in his middle and died...
...refused Joffre an official welcome. In 1919 a Negro boy was stoned at a white bathing beach; next day 30 blacks were maimed in the city's worst race riot. Alfonse Capone came from New York with a scar on his face. Dean O'Banion, onetime acolyte, draft-dodger, said "Hello" to two strangers, fell slug-riddled in his flower shop. Mayor Thompson took some friends down the brown Mississippi, washed water over levees, was shot at. "Just yesterday" Capone was jailed in Philadelphia. "For God's sake," says Chicago, "what does it matter who sits in the City Hall...
Marcia Gunther looked over her left shoulder at the young May moon and so her troubles began. Her husband drowned himself because he thought she meant it when she said she was eloping with another man. Her mother-in-law, a certain doctor friend, and the rest of the town condemned her for infidelity both marital, of which they presumed her guilty in fact, and religious, for they knew her father hated God. After the mother-in-law dies, Marcia wins over the doctor and the town for the happy ending, by sheer force of youth, love, indifference. A satisfying...