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...Bismarck and Mandan, nearby on the Missouri River, there was anxiety. The river ice and slush was packing up just below the cities. Water was rising with threat of flood. In lowlands the Missouri, streaming from the Rocky Mountain watersheds across Montana and draining North Dakota's Little Missouri, Knife and Heart rivers, had spread from its 500-ft. channel over a 6-mi. runway. The cities were in danger. Officials telegraphed President Hoover, pleading that Army bombers be sent to break the ice jam by dropping explosives...
...outskirts of each village the royal motor halted and its occupants alighted in mud and slush. Resolutely the rubbers waded, and the bowler advanced toward drab little rows of tiny cottages, some containing only one room and an attic. The village of Winlaton was the first major halt, for there Edward of Wales expected to find an old man .who had challenged him ?Frank McKay, a miner of 74. "I'll show you misery, Your Royal Highness!" he had written. "I challenge you to come...
...said in 1920 that Will Hays was a menace to America, and I have never since seen fit to retract my statement. During my Presidential campaign, almost eight years ago, I dwelt repeatedly on a $15,000,000 'slush fund' which I accused the Republican Party of receiving. . . . There are untold funds that went to the Harding campaign fund, of which no trace will ever be found, in all probability...
...pleasant one. No more will the Vagabond be in imminent danger of contracting pneumonia from having to walk through the muddy slush of Massachusetts Avenue, as he makes his way to the shines of learning. From hence forth his steps will be bent through the pleasant lush valleys, flitting like a ghost under the shimmering moonlight of former nights of striving to separate the pure gold from ore, the grains of knowledge from the chaff of the win-nower of learning. And the danger to his health will be immensely reduced...
...Yard--and the columns of the CRIMSON. The Vagabond himself, be it remarked quietly--entre nous is the expression if one sits in the Diamond Horseshoe--has just returned from a trip to Bermuda which he had promised himself for a long time, in fact ever since the muddy slush in the holes of Massachusetts Avenue began to get on his nerves and in his shoes. But even the in-elemency of New England weather, and his interest in the onion and Easter lily crop in Bermuda--which is doing nicely, thank you--could not keep him from what...