Word: tarr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Decreasing in number since 1900, lynchings have increased in savagery since 1773 when Negroes were "genteely Tarr'd and Feather'd." Now lately, eyes have been knocked out with sticks, fingers saved as souvenirs, pieces of flesh removed with corkscrews, men tied to automobiles and dragged through the streets until dead, men and women mutilated unprintably...
...Germain outside Paris, sends a regular column of comment to the London Daily Mail. He is an authoritative medievalist, a tireless scholar who disclaims his labors in his disdain for watery-veined pedants. He hates the "arty." His distant cousin is the more-famed Wyndham Lewis, vorticist, painter, novelist (Tarr), philosopher (Time and Western Man), a versatile, experimental da Vinci of the modern art world. Both are World War veterans, who combine literary enthusiasm with active lives...
...Business School Tennis Squad met last evening for the purpose of electing officers and considering plans for the season. As a result of the elections Edward Tarr Herndon 2G.B., of Pottsville, Pa., was made captain for the coming season, and Clarence Palmer Tenneson 2G.B., of Fargo, North Dakota, manager...
...result of yesterday's final matches in the Business School tennis tournament Edward Tarr Herndon 2G.B., of Pottsville, Pa., became the singles champion of the Business School, and with Frederick McGeorge Bundy 2G.B., of Notfolk, Va., also gained the doubles championship...