Word: tented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Midget: In a tent...
...frankly imitative of the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. Cartoonist Abian Anders ("Wally") Wallgren of Stars & Stripes supplied humorous sketches of C. C. C. camp life. A Cyrus Leroy Baldridge drawing ("Peeling Spuds") was reprinted from Stars & Stripes. Pages of photographs showed enlistment lines, chow lines, tent lines, work lines. For the benefit of those who did not know what they swore to, the 237-word C. C. C. enlistment oath was reprinted. Local camp news appeared under such headings as " 'Sing in Rain' at Hills Grove," "Things 'Nice' at Allenton," "Camp Perkins...
Twelve miles down the Potomac from Washington between Alexandria and Mount Vernon is an old military reservation called Fort Hunt. There at the President's order the War Department set up some 600 tents in neat company streets. In each tent were placed eight cots, eight pairs of blankets, eight mess kits. Electric lights were strung up. Latrines were dug. Army kitchens and mess halls were built. Shower shacks were constructed and water hydrants provided, with laundry boards. From Washington to this clean, dry camp were escorted nearly a thousand members of the Veterans Expeditionary Force and told...
...same day that the Crop Reporting Board tossed its statistic to the public the big four in world wheat (U. S., Canada, Argentina, Australia) met by proxy under the tent of the League of Nations at Geneva. Theirs was not the task of interpreting past short crops (which have been notably lacking) but of trying to bring about more short crops in the future. Two years ago they met on a similar mission in London, went home empty handed because the U. S. declared it could do nothing about restricting production...
...last week to see their pictures. Unlike Kansans, they like Curry, call his pictures "wonderful" despite a few little technical mistakes. The Codonas like the exact muscular timing of their Passing Leap. Baby Ruth likes the baby blue of her eyes against her light pink dress, the orange-red tent curtains and blue...