Word: stampede
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With such proverbs as these, Indians have for centuries coldly praised the suttee: "a good woman" who allows herself to be burned to death at her husband's funeral. The British have, of course, largely stamped out this rite, but only after the most appalling struggle.
That broad and fertile State was introduced to the Union as "Bleeding Kansas" and settled mainly by abolitionists. Perhaps the same temperament produces the abolitionist and the prohibitionist. At any rate, it is only natural that a state born in such a crisis should be stamped with a seriousness of...
It is upon women that the greatest hardship falls. They are forced as a rule to do night work. They are worked from 7.30 o'clock in the evening to 6 o'clock in the morning with 15 minutes off for dinner at midnight. For them the average wage is...
A rattle of hoofs. Fifteen mounted policemen had come up. They made brief sorties into the surf. Haggard men and women scrambled away from the iron shoes. No, someone was stepped on that time. A girl. The iron shoes stamped by. The sea, pushed from behind, pressed closer than ever...
Stamped, cheered and sat spellbound while Premier Briand delivered one of the most moving speeches of his career, urging ratification for the Locarno Treaties. His words: