Word: straws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty thousand people sat in New York City's Yankee Stadium, where 50,000 people have sat before and will sit again. The sky was blue, the crowd was happy. It was a Sunday ball game. Suddenly, without warning, clouds appeared, thunder clapped, rain poured down. Straw hats, spring clothes were in danger. The bleacherites arose en masse and rushed for the wire-lined exits. The exits were small, the rushers many. In the right-field bleacher section, called "Ruthville" because George Herman ("Babe") Ruth knocks most of his homeruns there, a young girl and an old man were...
...this experience resulted in felt hats rather than in felt shoes, legend does not relate, but it is undeniably true that the raw material for felt hats is the little animal with the long ears and the reputation for timidity and fertility. The straw hat lacks a romantic legendary origin, but includes in its ranks probably the world's most expensive hat-the Panama-handwoven from fibres of palm leaves in Ecuador and priced up to $500. Knox sells about a half dozen a year of the $500 variety...
...worked his way on a freight train to Phillips-Andover Academy. There he convinced the faculty of his right to enter, slept on a self-made straw mattress. He was soon leading his classes, playing in school sports, tutoring faculty children, organizing religious meetings, preaching in the pulpits of nearby towns...
From near Concordia, Kan., Walter Cyr, young farmer, vanished last week. After three days searchers found him atop a straw stack. Dreading capture, he gulped down poison. Purged by a physician, he explained that he had been so pestered by a life insurance agent that suicide had seemed attractive. . . . The pestiferousness of such agents- porch-climbers, telephoners, buttonholers. classmates-may soon become a matter for the attention of Citizen Calvin Coolidge. Last week he accepted nomination to New York Life Insurance Co.'s board of directors and assignment to the agency committee where he will specialize in "human contacts...
Fifty years ago the King-Emperor was a small and mischievous midshipman, known as "Sprats"* to the ship's company aboard Her Majesty's Ironclad Bac chante. The coxswain of the captain's gig was rollicking Bill King, who wore a big straw hat with ribbons down the back and was a great favorite with the middies. Last week rollicking Bill the sailor, now a little old gentleman of 75, stumped up the gravel drive of Craigwell House, Bognor, to call on King George, with worn logbook in his arms. His Majesty was delighted. For 15 minutes...