Word: trailings
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...went to War. Night after night for ten weeks Rev. William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, No. 1 evangelist of his day, packed the 20,000-seat tabernacle John D. Rockefeller Jr. and others had provided for him. His loud acrobatics moved 100,000 sinners to "hit the trail...
...Dartmouth, Carnival at Hanover, February 9 and 10; the Middlebury Carnival, February 12 and 13; the Harvard ski meet, an intramural affair on Mt. Washington, February 25; the Gunstock Race of the White Mountain Ski Runners on Mt. Belknap, March 4; the Eastern Downhill Race in the Taft Trail, Mt. Cannon, March 18; the Nanson Race on Mt. Washington, March 25; and the newly organized Harvard, Dartmouth Meet which this year is to be held in Tuckerman Ravine, Mt. Washington, April...
...drag hunt near her estate at Aiken, S. C. was U. S. polo's gallant, white-haired Matriarch Louise Eustis Hitchcock, 68, mother of "Tommy" Hitchcock Jr., longtime No. i U. S. poloist, aunt of George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, No. 1 U. S. steeplechaser. Hot on the trail of her baying beagles. Matriarch Hitchcock urged her mount to a stiff hurdle, was catapulted to earth when it faltered and fell. Fully conscious, she was carried to her home, where doctors found that two broken neck vertebrae had partly paralyzed her right arm, completely paralyzed her right leg. Said...
...long tin shed. On its floor piles and piles of brown leaves, rows and rows of piles. Down the long rows slowly moves an auctioneer chanting numbers, numbers and more numbers, singsong fashion. Behind him trail the buyers. Every eight, ten. fifteen seconds comes the only refrain that breaks the monotony of the chant: "Sold to this company" or "Sold to that." Thus every autumn since before the Civil War the U. S. tobacco crop has gone to market. Last week, however, singing auctioneers were silenced in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina...
...bald-browed beagle baying on the trail of income tax evaders was Henry Morgenthau Jr. last week. The Acting Secretary of the Treasury announced that henceforth all important cases brought before the Board of Tax Appeals would be inspected by him personally. From now on, he continued, the Treasury would go to law to recover tax deficiencies instead of accepting compromises out of court...