Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Martha watched little Ray with a she-bear's jealousy, insisted on posing as his sister and sharing his honeymoon trysts. When he was wooing one Irene D. La Point of Springfield, Vt., Martha wrote the woman "hideous things" about him. Irene wrote: "You skunk-but I love you, darn it." The romance was broken...
...streets. Shrilled one black-shawled peasant woman: "Why don't they both just jump off a cliff and give us some peace!" The People's Alliance, which had picked for its emblem the country's founder, Saint Marinus (who once bridled and saddled a big brown bear), shouted for its slogan "Vote for Long Beard (San Marino), not for Big Whiskers (Stalin...
...fresher things that Double Muscadine has to say. The rest of the 335 pages reveal (in the words of the jacket) how "Martha ... a mere slip of a girl. . . began to learn the things about her husband that so many Southern women in slavery days had to know and bear in silence." Mississippian Kirk McLean is not only "downright fond" of scuppernong wine, he is also the father of at least two quadroons. One day a disgruntled and sulking yellow girl flavors the family tea with a dash of king's yellow, or orpiment, an arsenious pigment. Somebody dies...
...uncomplicated. About the only rule was that a boy mustn't hang on to the back of ice wagons. "So we hung on to the back of ice wagons," says the Secretary of State, who enjoys recalling the "golden age of childhood." But Acheson could not help but bear some of the stamp of Father. No one who ever came in contact with the Rev. Edward Campion Acheson, later Bishop of Connecticut, came away without his imprint...
Cards must bear the signatures of the student's adviser or tutor and of the instructors in courses for which written permission is requisite for admission. Students who are unable to secure necessary signatures should report the fact to the Committee on the Choice of Electives, at 2 University Hall, where names and office hours of advisers and tutors are available...