Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Nicholas ("Nick") Roberts, 66, Yale '01, at whose annual Yale barn parties a silver bowl was awarded to the Eli who had "made his Y in life"; of kidney poisoning; in Montclair, N.J. A favorite dictum of retired Stockbroker Roberts: "Let me hire the office boy; I am willing to have someone else hire the others...
Many months ago Ursula found R.A.F. Flight Sergeant Donald Meese hiding in a Silesian barn after escape from a prison camp, hid him from pursuers, gave him clothes and a map for escape. Ursula followed later, married him in Cracow, went to England with...
...primped to look her best. At Calgary, there was a super-banquet, with speeches in her honor. Some 500 folks attended, some from as far away as New York and Quebec. Alcartra took it all as a contented country maiden should. A sleek Holstein, she had yielded a barn-shaking 1,410 lbs. of butterfat, 27,800 lbs. of milk, in one year...
...known. But it was known that some were attached to the Algonquin Regiment. And when the Regiment was given the job of taking the German village of Veen, the Zombies got their chance. They had to advance over flat farmland, then subdue the German defenders house by house, barn by barn, pigsty by pigsty. It took three days, and one reporter called the battle "a double-header dose of hell." Even after the village was taken, it had to be combed for mines, for it was nastily booby-trapped. One Canadian was blown up when he pulled a sheet...
...Persuader. In St. Paul, a proposed bill to outlaw air rifles met violent opposition from one Minnesota farmer who wanted to know how, if the bill were passed, he could get his bull into the barn...