Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ayer's only surviving child, but not until he had amply proved his ability to manage the agency wisely and well. In June 1936, Wayland Ayer Fry, fresh from Colage University, went to work for N. W. Ayer & Son to learn the business from the bottom rung, as his father had done before...
...elder Chesterton's idiosyncrasies was to pretend that he knew a great deal about flowers, gravely lecturing to lady visitors about a "sprig of wild bigamy." When he identified a flower as "Bishop's Bigamy," even his innocent listeners grew suspicious. "Perfectly happy at the bottom of the class," Gilbert Chesterton dreamed through his pleasant schooling at St. Paul's, producing "on most of the masters and many of the boys ... a pretty well-founded conviction that I was asleep." He went to art school, suffered a period of religious despair and moral confusion before he emerged...
...masterpieces, and now resumes its former importance. The paintings cover the two middle panels, both done in dark colors, much in the manner of a gloomy mid-Victorian picture. The top panel shows a bird, akin to a seagull, in the process of swallowing a fish, while the bottom one depicts a turtle resting on a half-submerged...
...There he conceived his great and precious folios of the Birds of America that are now collectors' rarities valued at $10,000. He painted woodpeckers, flycatchers, studied the chuck-will's-widow that moves its eggs if they are touched, the water turkey that walks on the bottom of streams, the rare scarlet ibis, the "overdressed" white ibis...
...cited: Madman Kidnaps Auto Driver. Vodka Homicide, Dies in Auto Blaze, Air Vet Held in Matricide, Dead Beside Prayers, Find Body of Girl Severed, Battle Today on Bertolini, and Hot Knife Halts Bleeding, while corporate liquidation is taken advantage of by the merry police, who drag the river bottom in "the hope of stirring up more of the body...