Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Tapper Newsome expertly tapped for the delegates. He combines the tap with the Charleston, the Black Bottom, the fox trot. He is working on a combination tap and flicker which, he says, should be a rage...
...navigated the S. S. Leviathan westward from Cherbourg with a record-breaking number of passengers aboard (2,730). With millionaires bunking with the crew, dowagers traveling third class, Captain Cunningham wired a berth-seeking friend: "Would put you up in my own cabin but every locker is full. Reserving bottom shelf for you next trip...
...others on their different moors, seated two by two in the line of grouse butts-little crescent shaped turf bunkers facing the grouse coverts. Three-quarters of a mile away the beaters started moving toward them, a line of schoolboys and gillies waving flags, beating dishpans. Crouched in the bottom of each butt was a nimble-fingered loader, ready to hand each "gun" his second weapon. Began the fastest most difficult wing shooting in the world. Flying 50 miles an hour, like rocketing black bullets, grouse zoomed straight over the butts. Hundreds of birds fell, hundreds more escaped...
Frank P. Blair, Chicago diver, last week adjusted his helmet, slowly submerged himself in Lake Michigan. With careful, heavy movements he prowled around the bottom, searched through jumbled cans, tires, bottles. Diver Blair is a good searcher. He it was who recovered from the muddy Jackson Park Lagoon the typewriter which helped incriminate Murderers Leopold and Loeb in 1924. When he emerged last week, he brought up two heavy objects. They were counterfeit seals of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University...
...immediate investigation into all medical licenses and diplomas. Authorities pointed out that because the forged diplomas were from many a college besides Chicago and Northwestern, to weed out all quacks would be almost impossible. Nevertheless, Diver Blair was sent on another search, at a certain spot on the bottom of Chicago's drainage canal, where the forgers confessed having thrown their spurious engraving plates...