Word: sills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among his literary works are numbered his biographies of Edward Roland Sill and Justin Morrill, his editing of Lowell's Anti-Slavery Papers, and contributions to the fourteenth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannics...
About the time John Tyler was President of the U. S., the Creeks were looking with awe and reverence on a child that had been born among them near Fort Sill. Like most primitive peoples they regarded half-wits as inspired. Nearly fifty years passed and the inspired child grew to middle age. In Grover Cleveland's time he was making 75? a day as a farm hand near Henryetta, Okla., living in a miserable shack, dressing in dirty blankets. The people of Henryetta knew him as Crazy Jack but on the Government's records...
...recent questionable left on the undergraduate door-sill by the Harvard Critic reminds us that that defunct publication is stirring within its whited sepulchre. With what rosy promises they beguiled the eager freshmen into the wolf-tended folds of their subscribers; with what lurid phrases they depicted the Alpine peaks of journalism which they were about to scale! Tenacious memoirs will recollect that toy booklet which appeared last fall, so scholarly in its denatured, so anxiously emulous of its elder brethren. A column of humor painted the Lampoon's lily an article on Harvard indifference fairly stole Mother Advocate...
...completed the State of Florida had already collected over $200,000 in taxes on betting and admissions-$50,000 more than last year. Crowds swarmed to Henry L. Doherty's Miami-Biltmore horseshow at Tropical Park to see an Army jumping team from Fort Riley beat Forts Myer, Sill, Benning, McPherson and Oglethorpe. In a Miami store window a pair of Primo Camera's giant clodhoppers stood filled with pennies-offering a pair of free tickets to this week's Camera-Tommy Loughran championship fight to whoever guessed most accurately their contents...
...cabins, fish ponds, and other attractions on certain land he owned. He lived there in the Park Lodge till he built himself a house (out of boulders) across from his swimming pool. The War boosted Medicine Park which was the nearest amusement place to the training camp at Fort Sill. In 1925 Thomas sold Medicine Park, and according to Oklahoma tradition, did well by the sale: made a good profit and still owns a ponderous mortgage on the land. Meanwhile Thomas rose in politics, served in the State Legislature, in 1923 was sent to Congress, in 1927 to the Senate...