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...knees; eat hoe-cakes of home-ground corn meal, baked over live coals on three-legged iron spiders. Unable to realize that the present flood is the greatest in the history of the Mississippi, hating the thought of herding into refugee camps, they cling to their homes and threaten to add great loss of life to the other disasters of the flood. One farmer is said to have been "rescued" six times from a flooded home to which he has each time returned...
...William Joynson-Hicks, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, took a step of such grave moment last week, as to threaten his own position in the Baldwin Cabinet, and render probable a break in the diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Soviet Russia...
...aggregation, CRIMSON strategy and technique have advanced by leaps and bounds during the past week. Rated at the beginning of the season as doubtful contenders for second rank honors, the nine men who are slated to open tomorrow's contest have been welded into a diamond unit which might threaten to upset the supremacy of the strongest editorial nines of the Eastern seaboard. Reports from the CRIMSON's special-Princeton correspondent, however, herald the team, which the Prince is sending to Cambridge as one which only a rare combination of air tight pitching and Herculean efforts with...
Last week the words of a revolutionary statesman rose out of century-old oblivion, cheered Wet leaders. For in the pages of a letter, grown yellow and faded, Gouverneur Morris penned vigorous words 123 years ago that now threaten the legality of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution (commonly known as the Liquor Prohibition Amendment). Aristocrat, rebel, descendant of sturdy Roundheads and men of law, Gouverneur Morris led the fight for the Declaration of Independence in his native state New York, helped draft the U. S. Constitution. His contribution to the Constitution is disputed. However, in 1804, Morris wrote...
...What did Father William threaten to do to the young man who asked him so many questions...