Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Epsom Downs, England, is a famous race, but not a fashionable one. You can say in an offhand way that you didn't have time to see the Derby this year without having people put you down as a boor. The King, for instance, didn't know till the last minute whether he would go down or not but when he looked out of the window and saw that there was a bright sun shining he decided that it might be fun. The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Connaught, the Princess Mary, and Princess Ingrid of Sweden...
...said that forest creatures when alarmed "freeze" where they are, and move no muscle till danger is past. Editor Wickizer, lacking protective coloring, hastily promised not to print "anything of a sarcastic or critical nature that would not be for the best interest of the University and the Associated Students", adding, "henceforth we pledge ourselves to be the submissive voice of every student leader and ready to carry out the wishes of every faculty member...
After the ousting, Mr. Broun issued a statement concluding: " 'Disloyalty,' unexplained, might mean to the reader anything from robbing the till to sitting on Ralph Pulitzer...
Paris Bohemians, needing diversion, become his disciples. So also Rosemary Kent, daughter of a steel magnate, Great Dragon of the Indiana K. K. K. As brother and sister they live in Marly woods, barefoot, till Rosemary catches cold, and returns to patent-leather slippers in America...
...sorrowing, the scrub fights his way through an unlighted life, and labors only that another may hear the cheers, that another may have his name listed among the immortals. Beneath the whiplash tongue of professional coaches he has never failed to bend his back to the oar, parrying thrusts till the beads of sweat stood out on his bosom. But when earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, there need be little sympathy for this graduate of the school of hard Knox. The name of the Blackshirt will lead all the rest...