Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during the Boxer Rebellion. This cow belonged to the Hoovers and they cherished her because good rich milk WAS rare then and there. Some predatory Germans took the cow. Forth-went the Hoovers leading their cow's small calf through narrow streets, punching and-prodding it into a grief-stricken moo-oo-ooing. Mother cow, hidden behind walls, heard the call of her young and mooed back maternally. Out rushed the Germans?and took away the calf...
...chappies terribly agog. On the very next evening dozens of red carnations appeared in Mayfair, and smart women flattered their escorts by thrilling, "How adorably ghastly!" Meanwhile, however, Jester Wales, having had his floral joke,* was speeding nocturnally toward the north of England, to visit in grim earnest the stricken coal fields where a half-million miners are workless and nigh to starving (TIME...
...dinner they found no place card laid for "the Empress Hermine," present consort of Wilhelm II. His 70th birthday was to have been the occasion for the first general recognition of her rank by the entire House of Hohenzollern. Poor Hermine! On the night before she had been stricken with chicken...
...roads lead to Nome, only the dazzling desert of the snow. But last week, Leonard Seppalla was not driving Scotty to a fever-stricken town near the Bering Strait with a cargo of serum strapped to his skidding sled. He was driving a team through the Adirondack woods, near Lake Placid, in the second Annual Lake Placid Sled Dog Derby, which he won with a total elapsed time of two hours and 32 minutes for the two 15-mile laps of the run. Later the most famous of dog team drivers banqueted in the Lake Placid Club with...
...years ago a conflict between the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian National would have seemed like a battle between the strong and the weak; the prosperous and the poverty-stricken, the lion and the lamb. President Edward Wentworth Beatty of the Canadian Pacific heads one of the world's famed transportation systems. Travelers can journey from Liverpool to Yokohama on Canadian Pacific liners and trains and stop en route at Canadian Pacific hotels. The company also operates its own express, telegraph and news services...