Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fuller Details ... In Lusk, Wyo., Mrs. Russell Bradley read in the local paper that her barn, just over a hill from her house, had burned down, went outside to investigate, found that it had, sure enough...
...Straight Row. On that November day in 1884 when Grover Cleveland reversed 2-4 years of Republican rule to win the Presidency for the Democrats, John Truman, owner of a mule barn in Lamar, Mo., raised a flag over his white frame house and vowed it would stay there as long as Democracy remained in power. Six months earlier, John Truman had tacked a mule shoe above his front door to celebrate the birth of his first son, Harry...
...remained secluded in his air-conditioned office in the New York capitol, or at his 486-acre farm at Pawling. When photographers descended on Pawling, they got none of the usual phony campaign pictures. Instead, the U.S. soon saw photographs of a well-groomed gentleman farmer, standing by his barn or leaning on a fence...
Miss Addie Sullivan is the daughter of a hill farmer too old to work his Ozark Mountain farm. In the morning she makes breakfast for her father, works at some of her daily barn, chicken-run, and truck-garden chores before walking a quarter of a mile to the Calamine, Ark. frame school where she teaches all eight elementary grades. The school has no electric light (the nearest power line is eight miles away), no running water...
...Diddle Diddle. In Perry, Okla., a 1,000-lb. bull belonging to Henry Gengler broke out of his pen, struggled onto the roof of the barn, climbed to the ridgepole, coasted down the other side, jumped 16 feet, cracked several ribs, knocked himself...