Word: vandalia
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...Alsatian stock, Debs was born Nov. 5, 1855 into a respectable bourgeois family at crude, democratic Terre Haute, Ind. His father kept a grocery store, read Victor Hugo. Gene left school at 14, spent a year scraping paint in a Vandalia railroad shop, became a locomotive fireman on the old Terre Haute & Indianapolis R. R. At 19 he gave up the only hard work he ever did because of his mother's fears for his safety...
...half-crazed lions, tigers, monkeys, elephants, camels. Menagerie fatalities: two monkeys, two cockatoos, a springbok. Hearses never reached cemeteries. Big employers like Illinois Sell Telephone. Western Union, Western Electric, hired whole floors in Loop (downtown) hotels to house their snow-bound workers. Motoring to the Illinois State Farm at Vandalia with five prisoners, two deputy sheriffs were engulfed by drifts, had to borrow money from one prisoner to carry the penal party through by rail...
Trapshooting. North American (Vandalia, Ohio)?amateur clay target, Gus Payne of Oklahoma City; women's amateur clay target, Eunice Haggard of Winchester, Ky.; junior. Bob Hardy of Galesburg, Ill.; sub-junior, Albert Meiss of Hazleton, Pa.; professional clay target. Earl Donahue of Ottumwa. Iowa; amateur doubles, Sam Jenny of Highland, Ill.; professional doubles, Rush Razee of Denver; women's doubles, Mrs. J. C. Wright of Atlanta...
...again one can only say that Mr. Boas has undoubtedly encountered these discouraging people. It is difficult, however, to shake off the idea that here is the devil's advocate again. It is hard to believe that a man endowed with sympathy could not find, even in "Vandalia", where Mr. Boas' professor fell on such rocky soil, people with vivacious minds, and to be sure that the fault did not lie chiefly with the professor who let bluster over-awe him. Evidently people were to him no even book, and he never passed beyond the title page...