Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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State Senators snoozed through the Johnston trial. The citizens of Oklahoma City were so hardened to this form of political revenge that even testimony about Mrs. O.O. Hammonds, the Governor's "ewe lamb" secretary, failed to whip up their lagging interest.
WHOOPEE! HURRAH! The legislature has adjourned! Let's all close up and celebrate! At one o'clock this afternoon I shall close my potato chip establishment. I shall hang out my American flags and as they kiss again the air of freedom unpolluted by the foul breath of...
After the Gould trio had landed among the icy mountains, pegged down their plane and set up their tent, a fierce wind rose from the north. Their indicator showed it roaring 85 m. p. h. The wind grew stronger. The plane bobbed up and down against its stay ropes. Stronger...
The Jitney Players. If you spend your summers in New England you may possibly have seen a troupe of mummers trundle into town of a hot summer's night, in motor trucks, unpack their scenery and their costumes and set up a show shop on a tennis court or...
Mons (British) is a news-story of the retreat of the English Army, known to their opponents as "The Contemptibles," from Mons to the Marne. Lacking the realism of such War pictures as Gold Chevrons, and Behind the German Lines, parts of which were taken in battle, its photographic effectiveness...