Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rained till the Churchill Downs track looked like a brown and olive swamp. The favorite flower of the East was Blue Larkspur, but Man O' War's gelded son Clyde Van Dusen won the race. The other Clyde Van Dusen, his trainer, nearly wept when he saw him come in. His owner, Broom Manufacturer Herbert P. Gardner, did not watch him because he was afraid of the excitement. His jockey, Linus ("Pony") McAtee, who won the 1927 Derby on Whiskery, said "I knew it from the start." More than 60,000 people watched the race, All of them...
Francis Pitman Bicknell, of Swamp-scott...
...knoll, wiped his eyes of the slime, then struck West toward escape. A great buzzard flapped over her?omen of evil?and when she reached a clearing she could see a cloud of his fellows in waterspout formation pointing like a finger down to the knoll in the swamp. She was betrayed. In an agony of fear and bafflement Hagar of the massive torso and puny wit, surrendered to her fate. But suddenly a beautiful idea dawned: "A nigger killin' heself by what de white folks calls committin' suicide."?"Everybody know nigger nebber kill heself...
...followed closely behind them they seemed to be in violent altercation. Drawing closer he was able to discover that it was the cuisine aboard the U.S.S. Texas which was under discussion. Apparently everything was wrong with the chow. It seemed that the spuds had been grown in a swamp, the coffee fabricated from bilge-water, the beef unfit for the fishes, and the canned willie-words failed them, but not expletives...
...went into a loop-the-loop with the idea of frightening him into speech and hearing. But the plane never came out of that loop; Luke Briotta is still deaf and dumb-and dead. There had been a sickening dive, an explosion and flames, an ugly hole in a swamp near Agawam, Mass. Pilot Potholm and another passenger also died...