Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them, little men which he will stand on the table as a joke to the crew when they come down to "grub," and the laugh that will greet this prank is as good as given, written up, and wirelessed already. Such a laugh as it will be! Yesterday we saw some gulls, but we just laughed it off. 'All in the day's work,' the Captain said, and he was given a rousing cheer with nine skyrockets on the end for his plucky statement. The men would do anything for the Captain, and the Captain would...
...Thus the Hippodrome, onetime (1904-1926) world's largest playhouse.* Last week it was sold and soon it will pass save from the memories of people who saw their first elephant there...
Paul Kirkwood was rich and married- to Claire, daughter of his father's financial partner. Claire felt the marriage without love, and she lugged away from Paul. It was while he was building the dam in loneliness that he saw Carla, strapping, kindly village teacher. Paul wrote Claire extolling Carla, which brought Claire post-haste to the forest-river country. There was an amiable picnic on the bank of the swift-flowing Mistassini. Paul fell in. "And then, on the cliff, one woman said to another: 'Are you going with him?' The woman spoken to gazed wide...
Mergers, when they become official, are seldom news, since almost invariably they are preceded by weeks, months of rumors. Last week saw mergers planned, mergers rumored, mergers denied, mergers accomplished...
Circus. To thousands of U. S. citizens the 101 Ranch Wild West Show represented the embodiment, the incarnation of that vanished West in which cowboys had not become associated with drugstores and Indians were not graduates of Carlisle. Many a European, too, saw the 101 Ranch Show, doubtless gained from it the impression that travelers in the western portion of the U. S. trembled before the tomahawk and the six-shooter. Begun informally, casually, when the Millers permitted some of their cowboys to perform at a local fair, the 101 Ranch Show grew into a circus that netted the Millers...