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...Alta Cossart Lawson, a ferocious doyenne of Vincentown, N.J., returns now and then-they say-to stalk up and down -in front of the ruin of her mansion, in extirpation of the night she forced her drunken, demented son to lop off the head of his meek little wife with an ax. ¶ Lettitia Dalton, the vain and vicious wife of a rich Virginia planter, was quite a dame. One night she sent her sister Caro to an old greenhouse on her York River plantation to get some grapes. Poor Caro fell into a trap, died horribly in a shower...
From war, science and industry he found hundreds of new words to define. There was guided missile (proyectil dirigido), G-man (agente secreto federal), high-fidelity (alta fidelidad), and 3-D (pelicula cinematográfica tridimensional). He had to translate babbittry (concepto de la moral y las costumbres de la clase media), flying saucer (platillo volador o volante), Hoosier (natural o habitante del estado de Indiana), and water wagon (sin tomar bebidas alcohólicas). Even some old words caused trouble. In no bilingual dictionary, for instance, could Williams find a definition of solitary confinement; he came across...
...MAHON Calgary, Alta...
House Guest. In Edmonton, Alta., Adam Fulton reported that someone broke into his home, cooked a meal, left the dishes dirty, slept in the bed, stole a cigarette lighter and tie clip, left a note: "I thank you for the use of your house...
...Lines Ltd., which had sought permission to transport Alberta's natural gas to Winnipeg and Minneapolis, and U.S.-controlled Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd., which wanted to build an all Canadian line, had agreed to merge. The new combine will build a 2,240-mile pipeline from Princess, Alta. to Toronto and Montreal. The pipeline will be 200 miles longer than the U.S.'s biggest, Tennessee Gas Transmission's 30-inch line linking Texas and Massachusetts, and nearly 1,000 miles longer than famed Big Inch, first of the big-bore tubes...