Word: straws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...break the thin ice at the edge to get a drink-occasionally one will get beyond the sure footing of the bank to a very smooth place where his sharp hoofs get no purchase. Then the boys have to get a rope to help him out, or scatter straw or leaves so he can help himself. It has happened that his struggles have carried him further and further from land; thoroughly exhausted by his labors, he is found frozen to death...
Died. William Levy, 74, Chairman of M. S. Levy & Sons of Baltimore, one of the first U. S. makers of straw hats (after the Civil War); at a camp near Gardiner, Me.; of an infection...
...STRAW PEN-John Fort-Dodd, Mead...
...Death of a Sinner. He panicked the crowd, laid them in holy rolling rows. Aristocrat Lou Crawford, who had come curiously with her uncle, soon wished she hadn't. Mob hysteria laid her low, nearly scared her out of her skin. Up front in the ''straw pen" (an enclosure made safe for writhing revivalists by strewn straw) male & female sinners flopped in convulsions...
...Straw Pen is the August choice of the Book League of America...