Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came the army to Bristol, first stop, where the good citizenry served tea to the foot-weary marchers and where pretty girls coaxed the younger marchers to trip a measure of jazz dancing with them. Later, the rolling kitchen got busy and soon after night fall a one-legged war veteran was serving hot food to the cry of "roll up"-the equivalent of the U. S. "come...
...Philippines-President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate and Senator Sergio Osmena, his sphinxlike senior partner in the Nationalist Party-arrived in Washington to see President Coolidge. They had bundled themselves up in unwonted overcoats crossing the Pacific to a chilly continent. But they had smiled confidently on the trip because when they left Manila (TIME, Oct. 17). They had heard that President Coolidge favored transferring the Philippines from military rule under the War Department to civilian administration under a special bureau of the Interior Department. This transfer was second only to Island Independence in the hearts of Statesmen Quezon...
...President Coolidge's reason for delaying this appointment so long is the distance of the U. S. from the Philippines. A recess appointment might be vetoed by the Senate causing the appointee a 10,000 mile round-trip for nothing...
...Silvers, his partner, killed himself. When Marceline came back to the Hippodrome in 1915 after a trip abroad, his crowds were already beginning to prefer the silent flutter of faces on a screen to the gayeties of a nimble droll. A mocking shadow ran after him for the next few years, whispering an insult in his ear every time the crowds at Ringling's sat silent when he twisted an eyebrow at them. By 1920, he used to pick up dollars by coming in at business men's dinners and trying to make the solemn faces crack...
...University of Texas, lacks confirmation in view of the spirit exhibited by a dozen Indiana students last week-end. It seems that the students were imbued with the desire to witness the Harvard-Indiana football game, but lacking funds, they were forced to make the thousand-mile trip via foot, flivver, truck, or anything that came along headed in the general direction of the Atlantic Ocean. They saw the game...