Word: tented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great, attended the 40th spring dinner of the Gridiron Club (composed of Washington newspaper correspondents). A "circus" provided burlesques of "Ringmaster Butler," "the Miami twins, Bill and Charlie,'" "Walsh, the wild man, who goes wild on oil and sugar." The LaFollette crowd, it was announced, had crawled under the tent and set up a three-shell game. Finally the new club President, J. Frederick Essary of the Baltimore Sun, was made to a ride on a hobby horse...
...story is of Judith* and was originally concentrated for the stage by Henri Bernstein. It argues that the quest of glory can be consummated more surely by service to one's people than by love. Though they are in love, Judith kills Holofernes in his tent. There is all the declamation and gaily colored scenery requisite to sustain these hours of argument and action. The general combination is conducive to little except definite apathy...
With women and song, like a Sheik in his tent...
Evening. In the tabernacle-tent of the evangelist, every yellow chair and all the sawdust aisles were filled. Six weeks had he labored for this hour. Half the town (Elmira, N. Y.), as they sang hymns of salvation, saw their sins stand horrible and naked before them. The evangelist leapt to the rostrum, proclaimed his text: "THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH." Finally, said he: "No person in whose heart reposes guilty knowledge need expect to make peace with God until full confession is first made." Dawn. In police headquarters, a night captain leaned drowsily over his desk. He felt...
...badges, feed and saddle bags, ball bearings, curb bits, paper cloth, tug chains, tea, coffee, and food-tins, trench cups, paper wagon-curtains, wire cutters, sack fillers, forks and spoons, burlap halters, holsters, mess kits, fur-covered knapsacks, canvas knapsacks, saber knots, trench lanterns, flamethrower nozzles, ornaments, sweat pads, tent pins, tent poles, a paper rein, ropes, saddles, saws, shovels, spurs, straps, stirrups, sur-cingles, paper tape, torches, traces, a paper whip, wagons, carts, other vehicles, empty shells...