Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmer-artists, Earl Sugden, 56, of Yuba in Richland County, does his landscapes with barn paint, makes his own brushes out of hair from his horses' tails clamped into holders fashioned from old tin cans. Painting is only one of Farmer Sugden's many hobbies.' Self-taught in everything, he makes arrowheads by pressure-chipping, has made tin models of more than 135 different kinds of Wisconsin birds, likes to make jackknives, translates poetry from French, German, Norwegian and Hebrew, writes poetry himself. Besides a workmanlike landscape and a portrait of a worried raccoon, Farmer Sugden sent...
Under the leadership of James W. Dow '41, the Outing Club will hold a joint skating and feasting party with Wellesley this Saturday on the shores of Lake Waban; afterwards the Club will go to a West Acton barn dance...
...commerce have preferred to call their country "the Nation's No. 1 industrial frontier," but behind either phrase were simple facts which everyone knew. The National Emergency Council's famous 1938 report on Southern economic conditions had made them as plain as the side of a barn; while the South had immense natural wealth, its people were the poorest in the Nation; until it had industries of its own, it would remain a backwoods colonial economy...
John's contribution was a snorting, hissing account of a performance of Camille in a barn in North Long Branch, New Jersey, by Ethel, 12; Lionel, 14; John, 10; and Arthur Byron, somewhat older. He recalled how Byron had panicked the audience by sweeping up to Ethel and inventing the line: "Come, entice me further, pretty one, over a libation in the conservatory." Then John saluted his sister's "gaiety, charm and splendor. . . . One has only to think of her to be invested with a God-given quality of humility...
Having just recovered from a weekend of skiing, barn dancing and hay rides at Tamworth, N.H. with the Radcliffe Club, the club members are already making plans for the Harvard-Wellesley jamboree at Intervale this weekend...