Word: shade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harding caused the President to cancel even a partial trip over the Richardson Trail by automobile, as had been planned. The day after arriving in Fairbanks, the President and the chief members of his party spoke in the baseball park at Fairbanks. The temperature was 94° in the shade, and there were three cases of heat prostration in the audience. Mr. Harding declared that he felt himself to be a real sourdough, because he was the first President to visit Alaska. A part of the ceremonies was the presentation of a moose-hide collar, ornamented with gold nuggets and ivory...
...must be pointed out that the Strand is something like half the width of Broadway and that (due to the crowd) a sharp walk of three and three-quarter miles per hour is even a shade more than improbable. In Threadneedle Street, in the city, it can be said that the people, who swarm like ants, go faster than the presumptive vehicles that dare transgress its sanctity. In England all fares are paid according to distance; taxis are cheaper than in New York...
...Lackaye had been on the road together in The Circle for the last eight months not without-ahem-some differences of opinion. So " Let's fight it out-10 rounds to a decision " said Mr. Dixey (64) to Mr. Lackaye (61) when the last performance came. But the shade of the Marquis of Queensbury or somebody interrupted the threatened fisticuffs and now Mr. Lackaye says he is just going to keep on ignoring Mr. Dixey. " Or if I don't," said Mr. Lackaye, " It is my right, as the challenged party to choose the weapons and I shall...
...Within its shade we'll live...
Time: Midnight, May 2, 1923. Man with a Green Shade: How far have...