Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newton D. Baker, two really great men, brings to mind a little poem, towit: "A little dog barked at the big red moon That smiled in the evening sky. The neighbors smote him with rocks and shoon- But still he continued his ragful tune. And he barked 'till his throat was dry. But, soon 'neath the hill that obstructed the west, The moon sank out of sight; And the little dog said, as he laid down to rest, "Well, I scared it away all right." L. V. LA TASTE...
...late anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti. Colorado mine operators discountenanced the comparatively conservative United Mine Workers some time ago, introducing company unions to replace branches of the A. F. of L. subsidiary. Wages having been depressed below the Jacksonville scale, the I. W. W., one of whose favorite phrases is "Yours till the next big strike," saw a chance to foment general unrest in Colorado after the success of their Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration. That, plus the natural desire of laborers for higher pay, and the tendency of coaldiggers to suspect their washed-&-brushed employers, was the background of "wobbling" last week...
...death of their airy and desperate career. Trevor describes them: "'Their career is as romantic as a soap bubble, and that's the most romantic thing I can think of. ... You see it drifting into all sorts of dangers and just missing them, till it seems an absolute marvel it can last so long. The whole romance of it is that you know it must come to grief.' " The Crownes begin to come to grief when Tilli Van Tuyl persuades Norman to produce his play The Seven Dawns...
...Lampoon is ever read till its pictures are exhausted. The poem about the goldfish belonging to the old lady of "singularly wanton frame of mind" is evidently the work of a writer who can do still better. The ballad of the Rotunda pleases by reason of the popuarity of its subject, but no traffic sergeant in Cambridge, Mass., says "wolking" or "goil"--never...
...what the cleric dictates. Said James (with no word from the cleric): "I James take thee Sophie to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight my troth." Cried Sophie (with no word from the cleric): "I Sophie take thee James, etc., etc." The onlookers were agreeably shocked...