Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most popular person at the picnic was Richard Evans, 91. A nimble fellow in button-shoes, he shook hands with everyone. It was found that he was the oldest foreign born inhabitant of Cook County; he had been brought there by his parents when he was ten months old. He had a trombone with him which he played at frequent intervals. He seemed eager to tell everyone about the old days when he was a young man and when Chicago was a young city. Said Richard Evans: "I knew Chicago before it had a railroad, a paved street, a trolley...
...Mayfair to Scotland's dour Hebrides, every Britishman knows that the only thing which keeps him reasonably warm is the Gulf Stream. Alarming, therefore, was a report last week by two White Star Line skippers that, according to their observations, the Gulf Stream has recently changed its course ten points. Should it swerve away from the British Isles entirely, they would become semi-Arctic. Stern old duchesses and gouty earls would have to flee, pellmell, with cockneys and Irishmen before a new Ice Age. Cold England would have to be abandoned, and Britishmen would seek refuge in their Dominions...
...Ten years ago Turkey's leaders were hypocrites under the shadow of the Caliph's mantle, drinking alcohol but denying alcohol to the people on orthodox grounds. They were unwilling to drink publicly but Consumed more copiously in private than myself, who drink publicly to the health of the Turkish people...
Prophetic U.S. citizens who peered futureward ten years, last week, could not discern a President who will dare publicly to drink their health...
...Chelsea, joins the flotilla, which then proceeds 2,300 miles across the Southern Ocean to the Ross Sea and the Bay of Whales. The ships will remain long enough to see the expedition established in the ice village, the great wireless mast grounded in the glacier, then withdraw for ten months to escape the six months' night which is the Antarctic winter. In the autumn of 1929 they will return to pick up the expedition, carry it back to the U. S. early...