Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 1776 until 1782 the Upper Mohawk Valley in New York was the scene of some of the wildest warfare of the Revolution. Dispossessed Tories who had been driven to Canada raided the small settlements and isolated farms. Indians took advantage of the warfare between whites to hunt scalps, for which they received eight dollars apiece at British headquarters at Niagara. The farmers who made up the U. S. militia hurried home after each victory or defeat, since they had to get on with the crops between battles. Now & then detachments of the regular Continental Army marched in to defend...
...trick is really very simple. The pole (probably not the one originally exhibited) has a strong metal core, and fits solidly into a socket in the ground. Onto its upper end, through the folds of the elaborate knot, is rigidly attached a horizontal iron rod, which passes under the Yogi's arm to the upper side of his body, and from the end of which he is suspended by means of some sort of harness around his body. The rod is concealed by his half-closed hand and voluminous, wrist-length sleeves...
...account of her life with MacArthur. Their romance began at the water-cooler in the city room of the Chicago Herald & Examiner. He proposed to her in the Old Mill at Coney Island. To save money they were married by his preacher-father. They traveled to Hollywood in one upper berth. There he lolled all day on a beach "getting healthy," lived on her salary. Finally...
...before he carves the roast. His conversation is straightforward, if sometimes redundant, and he is quite capable of conveying, if not originating, an acceptable image. Sonorously he speaks of the democratic necessity, in these troubled political times, of a large, well-disciplined, contented bloc of organized workers between "the upper millstone of capitalism, and the nether millstone of radicalism...
...wrote an engaging, popular book about a State that is rich in local color. Now Author Carmer has tried hard to distill the native glamor from a region where the conventional trappings of romance are not nearly so conspicuous as they are in the South. His new field is upper New York State, superficially a prosaic region of farms, sprawling industrial cities, narrow towns...