Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Independence, Iowa, on the Wapsipinicon River, Harry Ervin Yarnell went to Annapolis in 1893, and started his career in the U. S. Navy. It was his luck, good or bad, to be assigned to the Orient. He saw the Philippine Insurrection, the Boxer Rebellion, subsequently much of the world from the deck of U. S. warships...
...afternoon last week Manhattan Patrolman John Cersosimo chased a ramshackle Buick lickety-splitting through Harlem. When he caught up with the Negro driver he saw, squirming and squealing on the back seat, a bulging burlap...
...captain in the Dutch colonial forces, she went on the stage in Paris in 1905, passing as part Javanese, with a performance of muscular bravura learned in Java. She became France's leading courtesan, sought, kept and highly feed by eminent members of the diplomatic set. French agents saw her in Berlin the day hostilities began, riding triumphantly with Chief of Police Jagow. (He had originally called on her to complain about her dancing naked in a Berlin night club, remained to engage her for the German Intelligence.) Back in France, she continued leading her conspicuous life, apparently unafraid...
...Holy Comforter (29 members and communicants) when young, handsome, go-getting Rev. Leland Hobart Danforth asked for a chance at the parish. Just out of seminary, he took over at $35 per month, increased the congregation to 500. On a visit to Washington's National Cathedral, he saw what a drawing card the tomb of Woodrow Wilson was. Father (because high church) Danforth resolved to obtain some popular Chicago dust-that of Eugene Field, buried in Graceland Cemetery...
...never saw such a funny bunch of boys in my life," said "Jim". "They're up at 6:30 o'clock, at work a little after 7, stop for a bite when someone gets hungry after noon, and then they're at it again all afternoon and to bed almost as soon as it's dark...