Word: winters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring aid to the Kaws when the Cheyennes swooped down on their reservation. When the Kaws were sent to new lands in Oklahoma, he started out to go with them, but his family said: "No, Charles, you must go to school." So Charles went to school in the winter; jockeyed and worked in a livery stable in the summer...
Last week at their annual winter dinner and "frolic," they, the members of the Gridiron Club of Washington, D. C., newsgatherers all, found fresh sources for fresh fun. The President, the Vice President, most of the Cabinet, many of the Senate, many of the House and a sprinkling of foreign diplomats took their seats, to be suddenly startled by the furious ringing of bells. A messenger entered bearing an alarm clock which he said was for Vice President Dawes. The messenger was rebuked for reviving an old source of embarrassment to Mr. Dawes . . . the nap he took when his presence...
...country extends. News from Atlanta, Ga., contained a hint of notable latitude. There the loudest speaker of all Fundamentaldom, Dr. John Roach Straton of the Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, had been imported to address the mother chapter of "The Supreme Kingdom," a high-powered crusading fraternity founded last winter (TIME, Feb. 1) with the paid assistance of Organizer Edward Young Clarke, who built up the Ku Klux Klan for a fat commission on each member pledged. The first feature of the meeting was Organizer Clarke's announcement that the Kingdom would hold a convention at St. Louis in March...
...management wishes to stress the fact that H. A. A. books will be valid at all basketball games held in Hemenway gymnasium this winter...
When Coach Farrell's track charges return to Cambridge after the Christmas vacation, it will be to face the official opening of winter practice on January 3. A busy season on the boards is in prospect for the Crimson runners who will have to defend their indoor intercollegiate laurels, won at New York last year...