Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt locked the barn door last week and ordered a searching party out to look for the horse. The President with quick strokes of a pen affixed his signature to an order freezing all Axis assets in the U.S., along with those of all other European countries not yet frozen...
...that he had long hoped could be avoided. Only a fortnight back, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, who for months had urged the President to take the step, virtually conceded that his freezing plan had been abandoned. Pressed to explain, he said it was too late: "The barn is empty. The horse is gone." Asked whether it was "a very big horse," Mr. Morgenthau sadly answered: "Well, it was larger than a Shetland pony...
They amassed old books, rifles, farm tools, wagons, toys, wax fruit, chamber pots. They salvaged the whole floor of a barn because members of an early German-American sect had knelt on its boards to pray. When a neighboring hotel was torn down, Henner and George Landis bought its whole barroom. But Henner and George Landis were not antique dealers, never sold so much as a darning needle. They just collected things as a hobby...
...reasons I'm unhappy [is] the dressing room they have given me over here. It's a great big barn of a place . . . but the thing is they have put thirty guys in here with me. ... I don't know who they are ... they have brought beds in here and are lying around. . . . I was treated much better ... at Warner Bros...
...Book, like Joe Cook's imagination, often detoured around established facts, but it got the idea of Cook's gaga saga across. In Evansville, Ind., in the 'gos, the boy Joe was balked from joining the circus and talked his mother into electric-lighting the Cook barn so Joe could give a show there. The Cook home itself had only gas. Joe grew to be the only claimant of 18-ball juggling and had a picture of himself doing it, the balls suspended by invisible wires. When he began talking on stage as he talked in rehearsal...