Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never says how warm it will be ... I'm not sure our definitions would be accepted in official weather circles. Abe defines rain as any precipitation which will spatter off a bald man's head. Snow means you can see a cat's tracks across the barn roof. These are meaningful definitions, but the specialists down at the Weather Bureau would probably have to hold their sides to keep from laughing." Funny, though, says Sagen-dorph, how often Abe Weatherwise has the last laugh...
Colorado's sportsmen were appalled at the bloodletting. Many ranchers had armed themselves to protect their herds from two-legged raiders more dangerous than mountain lions. Said one rancher: "A house or a barn isn't protection enough any more; you've got to have a concrete pillbox...
...army officer who travels west under sealed orders to trace a pair of murders. He can never quite put his finger on the killers, so he shoots a dozen extras just to make sure. Sandwiched in between the first and the last shot are a vicious flat fight, a barn-burning, and the seduction of a bosomy young woman at the almost incredible range of thirty feet. There is also some business about stolen army uniforms and gold thieves which escaped this reviewer...
What Was That? Near St. Charles, Ill., while Farmer Maurice Regole's silo exploded and collapsed the barn against the feed shed, which in turn knocked the windmill over the implement shed, Farmer Regole peacefully slept on, reported to neighbors next day that he had heard "a slight noise...
...about two minutes the place begins to put on a very good imitation of purgatory, for the sun is beating down mercilessly on a tin roof over your head, and the loft is one big black Stifling oven. I wish I had thought a little about that cow barn, back in the days when I was committing so many sins, in the world. It might have given me pause...