Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known Tom Outland...
Forthwith H. R. H.'s secretary wrote to Socialist-Editor Tom Johnson (Labor M. P.): "Professor Carlyle's views are his own and in no way reflect those of His Royal Highness, who stands aloof from party politics...
DAVID GOES VOYAGING-David Binney Putnam-Putnam ($1.50). Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were "made-up" boys. David Putnam is a real one, aged 12, and besides he went thousands of miles on the ocean (with Deep-Sea-Explorer William Beebe, to Panama and the Galapagos Island) and had a lot of modern tackle and interested grown-ups to fish with and collect birds' eggs, turtles, lizards, bugs, beetles and even scorpions. He saw sharks and devilfish, albatrosses and penguins, sea lions and octopuses. He helped dig buried treasure and played pirate on desert islands at the Equator...
...began to break out in British ports. The Amalgamated Marine Workers' Union-of Communistic and I. W. W. tendencies-took the side of the strikers and began to steal the members of the regular union. Throughout the Commonwealth the strike spread rapidly. Australia was affected at once. There Tom Walsh led the insurgent seamen. Last week 33 ships were tied up at Melbourne. Twelve liners were unable to leave Durban (South Africa). Newcastle (New South Wales), Cape Town, Rangoon (Burma), Sydney, Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, Christchurch (New Zealand) were all affected...
...Receive baseball scores of the afternoon games. . . Chambersburg below looks like a picture under a Christmas tree, and we think of the kiddies at home and wonder if they are asleep. Throw kisses to Tom and Billy from the ship in the air. . . See lightning to the south. . . Crossing Pennsylvania and its beautiful farms but we cannot see their beauty owing to the darkness, but hope for better things tomorrow...