Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gold marks. . . . Experts had displayed to the joint cabinets statistics proving that East Prussia, handicapped by isolation, can; not prosper unless temporarily subsidized. The cabinets, impressed, but faced with a necessity to economize, hesitated. Came Hindenburg. . . . He spoke as the civilian President of the Republic, but those who listened saw in their mind's eye the great Commander-in-Chief who, in 1914, had flung back the Russian armies from that same East Prussia which he was trying now to save again. German decorum kept secret the nature of the plea made by Old Paul von Hindenburg, but German...
...statue intended as a model for a 35-foot bronze statue to be called The Pioneer Woman and to be erected, at the expense of E. W. Marland, President of the Marland Oil Co., near Ponca City, Okla. They had been touring U. S. cities so that those who saw them might say which one they liked the best. Last week George Marland, son to E. W. Marland announced that one of the twelve women had been selected for this honor...
...their squared-toed shoes, their black gowns; they ran to the student dormitories and herded the sleepy boys to safety. They knew that they had neither chance nor means to extinguish the blaze. Water was too scant in the mountains. They telephoned Fort Smith. The night telephone operator there saw their signal flashing redly from her switchboard; asked, respectfully, what they wished; put them in instant connection with the Fort Smith fire department...
Schaefer, former champion, son of famed "Wizard" Jake Schaefer, one of the greatest experts of billiard history, led and increased his lead. Late in the match he saw Cochran score 196 points in a run; was not impressed. Schaefer is the only player alive who has run out a tournament match "from spot," not permitting his opponent (Hagenlacher, 1925) a turn at the table. Cochran was not unduly proud; once in championship play he ran 407 points. Neither played as well as he knows how. Cochran, stocky, abrupt, lost the world's championship to slim, catlike Schaefer, 1,500 points...
...Stamford, Conn., a large, stupid rooster saw a pile of fermented mash on the side of the road. After pecking and swallowing a large quantity of this mash the rooster fell over in the gutter, drunk. A motorist, thinking him dead, picked up the rooster and carried him home. Inside the house, the rooster's owner looked at the bird with disgust. "He's always getting like that," she said. The rooster winked one red eye, croaked, fell fast asleep...