Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trooping down the drive. Assisted by Mrs. Warren, Frances Dewey dutifully snipped a sprig of roses from her garden ("I'm the good weeder type," she explained). The governors took off their coats, leaned on a fence, smiled for the cameras in front of the flagpole, by the barn...
Last week the waiting was over, but some of the hysteria lingered on. Established at last in the official Capetown residence Groote Schuur (Big Barn), bequeathed in his will to South Africa's Prime Ministers by Anglophile Cecil Rhodes, Anglophobe Malan had named a cabinet to match the opposition's worst fears: not a single representative of South Africa's English-speaking groups. Several of the new ministers, like Malan himself, belonged to the fanatically nationalist Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Sentinel) and Broederbond organizations, whose members had been banned from state employment during the war by Prime...
...been rather uncommunicative since the prewar days when he dashed off short stories between breakfast and lunch, broke into the San Francisco Examiner with a sad short-short, among the real-estate-for-sale ads: "Approximately 30-year-old well-built ranchhouse . . . 30 acres . . . No garage, no barn . . . heating apparatus out of order . . . 12-party line . . . no bus . . . plenty of squirrels. Owner paid only $32,000 . . . He is keeping six or seven acres for himself as a monument to his real-estate sharpness. Will sell balance for $35,000. If interested have head examined, or telephone...
...locking the barn door that keeps the rain away. Plans have always been worked out to the smallest detail for the eventuality of showers, Sanders Theater prepared, and rain tickets printed. And all--for 27 years--to no avail...
Room for Lots More. In Peacock Station, Va., Farmer Paul Rhinehart, 76, stood before a rachitic barn and pointed to Marian and Irma Zielezinski, who were feeding a yardful of clamorous chickens. Said he: "Here I was with 600 acres of the best land in northern Virginia. I just decided to get ahead of Congress in this building-a-new-world business...