Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kalgoorlie, Australia, she read Kipling's Just-So Stories?"Old Man Kangaroo" and "Yellow Dog Dingo"?to her two sons. For years Kipling was their favorite and many a long trip was eased by repetitions of the doings of the 'Stute Fish, the Elephant's Child, and Mr. One-Two-Three- Where's-My-Breakfast...
Last week Baron Ebbisham. who as Sir George Rowland Blades was two years ago Lord Mayor of London, returned to London from a business trip to the U. S. and imparted to his countrymen some shrewd advice. "I want to say a word." he began, "against slavish copying of methods which may have produced prosperity in other lands. Take such experiments as American mass production methods or German cartelized [trust] control of entire industries. These may be only passing phases. At any rate remember that our traditional lines of development have little in common with those countries...
After the Southern trip where Coach Mitchell's charges walloped the ball at a fast clip in the face of ragged early-season hurling, the team has slowed down and batting averages have gradually fallen to their present position...
William Kissam Vanderbilt, pausing last week at Malaga, Spain, on his round-the-world yachting trip, gave a too large check to a Malaga merchant. Honest, the tradesman offered change. The Vanderbilt answer, as reported by the New York Times: "Keep the change, and the microbes with...
...record for women: 26 hrs., 21 min. 32 sec.-4½ hrs. more than the previous record (Louise McPhetridge Thaden of California). Miss Smith told about being airsick: "I ate an orange but it wouldn't stay put. . . . Then I tried a tomato but it had a round trip ticket, too. I drank some water and it was the same story over again so I finally got tired and gave...