Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Siringo, born in the County of Matagorda, Tex., in 1855, was a cowboy from seven on.* For 40 years he roamed about the West, either shooting at bandits with a large revolver or selling ice cream and cigars in his shop. He helped chase Billy the Kid, whose bloodthirst was of an extraordinary coolness. As a detective he functioned for several years at taming the Wild West. Now he functions at pumping Wild West atmosphere into the eager balloon of his reminiscences. The verses above, quoted reminiscently, describe an oldtime bandit. Also they describe the spirit of Author Siringo...
...ceremonies celebrated the 108th anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth at West Hills, L. I. The celebration culminated in an announcement by the Walt Whitman Foundation of its plan to establish "a liberal college of arts and sciences" in memory of the poet. One of the aims of the college will be to help modern U. S. poets obtain publication of their works. Camden was where Poet Whitman spent the twilight of his life...
...barnstorming, stunt flying. Then he got a backer and a superbly designed Wright-Bellanca monoplane. He shattered the endurance record by remaining in the air (with chunky Bert Acosta) for 51 hours. He was ready to conquer the Atlantic long before Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh came out of the West, but bickerings disturbed his camp...
Some 340 miles west of Land's End, England, Chamberlin and Levine circled around the Cunarder Mauretaytia, only 80 minutes after the liner had passed the U. S. cruiser Memphis, which was carrying Captain Lindbergh to Washington...
Saturday's game against Myopia was the third of a series of practice games following a month's training at Dedham and preliminary to the intercollegiate title play at the Westchester-Biltmore Club at Rye, New York, next week. In the tournament the Crimson mallet men will face West Point, Pennsylvania Military College, Princeton and Yale respectively on June 16, 18, 20, and 25. Each team will meet the other entrants once, and the outfit with the highest average takes the title...