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Word: tented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neptune, N. J., the Rev. Irving Meier, pastor of the Full Gospel Church, was arrested last week on a charge of disorderly conduct because he persisted in conducting "screeching, howling and hilarity" in his tent-tabernacle after 10 p. m. Upon his promising to cease his pentecostal endeavors at a seemly hour he was discharged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Disorderly Conduct | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...Woof, Woof", went a creature cloistered in a sample of a main tent. I gave Oscar the necessary ten cents and up he went to do his daily good turn to the local faksters. His crest fallen features quivered with chagrin as he rejoined the family group before the door of the side show. "It was no Indian", he cursed, "It was only his wife...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 6/18/1927 | See Source »

Cries from the main tent told us to hurry for choice seats or even those splinters called bleachers. And soon we were watching cowgirls and cowboys and their cows doing such stunts as my merry Oscar had not seen before since he was in Sweden with the Marines during the battle of Jungfrau...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 6/18/1927 | See Source »

Residence. The word "residence" is liberally interpreted. Ontario hotels, boardinghouses, stores, now advertise: "Welcome, visitors. Your room is your residence." Tents are believed to class as residences; tent-cities are planned in which tourists, residing, may legally drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Over the Lake | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...Indians were going to kill Captain John Smith with the time that Pocahontas rushed in and saved him. The old chief I got it from told me that. I was five years old and so drunk I could hardly stand up the day I took it out of his tent, after he'd been killed in a fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Boy | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

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