Word: belton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once Upon a Time. In Belton, Mont., a bear entered Jean Sullivan's house and 1) slept in his bed, 2) pulled out his dresser drawers, 3) raided the pantry, 4) carried out the bedding, 5) hung the curtains on a tree...
Squirearchy's Decline. The Headmistress, tenth and latest of the Thirkell line, is just like the other nine. When Headmistress Madeleine Sparling evacuated her blitz-threatened London girls' school to Harefield Park in Barsetshire, impoverished Squire Belton of Harefield welcomed the fat rent she paid for his manor. But he suffered an anguish of snobbery over having his ancestral home occupied by a bunch of "elderly . . . slightly deformed [school] mistresses" dressed in wartime "utility non-crease . . . ready-made dresses of a kind of fine sacking in shades of puce [and] dirty tomato'' -to say nothing...
...Captain. In this war I have known a lot of officers who were loved and respected by the soldiers under them. But never have I crossed the trail of any man as beloved as Captain Henry T. Waskow of Belton...