Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegates, men and women masquerading as cowboys set up a hullabaloo and began to march. At the head of the column on the shoulders of two men was Miss Josephine Dorman, plump San Franciscan in red, white and blue. She sang, shouted, hurrahed for her candidate. She did it till she was red in the face, almost hysterical. Other women joined in the frenzy. Cornetists aggravated it. Cheerleaders inspired it. Songs bolstered it. Those who took part were the group opposite to that which had paraded against the Ku Klux. Klan. The Herculean effort wore itself...
Congressman Upshaw remarked to Will Rogers (according to Will) as the audience dispersed: "Why did they wait till this late in the Convention to pray...
...roses and Rolls-Royces. But something that (to the reader's slightly puzzled intelligence) seems like an attack of amnesia, causes her to drive off in her new Rolls on their wedding night?while her unsuspecting husband sits by the moonlit lake and meditates, and never misses her till morning...
...parachute snap open and knew well that he would land somewhere. Edward A. Wuichet of the Dayton Chamber of Commerce, walking below in the summer darkness was startled to hear a voice from the sky say: "Hello below ? Hey, down there?" The most peculiar conversation passed in the dark till the aviator landed on a 100-foot cliff, with scarcely a bump. When his plane came down in a crash it was immediately enveloped in flames. Crowds stood about in morbid curosity and horrified anxiety, helpless to extricate the man they thought buried beneath the wreckage, when Macready suddenly walked...
...strenuous Commencement Week. Today the lighter activities will begin with the Senior Spread and Dance in Memorial Hall. Tickets for the dance may still be obtained at the offices of the Class Day Committee in Holworthy 2 at $4.50 each. The Spread will start at 9 and will last till...