Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student of architecture, furnished the clever plans to transform of a large house into a pleasing replies of Swiss chalet with a huge fireplace, bedroom balconies, and other typical Alpine Features. Cannon Mountain skiers can run right into the Thorner House yard by way of the Coppormine or Tucker Brook ski trails...
...Ministry's belated story of how invasion was stiff-armed on Sept. 16 seemed timed to bolster public courage-and details of it came to Aircraft Production Minister Lord Beaver-brook's newspapers from "neutral" sources in Spain at just the right moment. A change in the command of the Home Fleet also well suited the emergency...
...workshops and phalansteries, they hoped to convert the world by good example. Most of the good examples came to life in the U. S., usually died a quick death, sometimes lingered like the Oneida Community or the Fourierist phalanstery near Red Bank, N. J. There the remnants of transcendental Brook Farm migrated. There Author Alexander Woollcott was born...
...Bound Brook...
...delicate bawdry in a warless, now almost mythical England, written by a Malta-born curlylocks named Margery Sharp, author of The Nutmeg Tree. Professor Isaac Pounce disrupts the village of Gillenham by uncovering a legendary steppingstone from which unchaste lassies, unfaithful wives invariably slip into the brook.* Miss Carmen "Smith," the artists' model, slipped of course; but nobody expected that the stone would reveal the professor's mild nephew, Nicholas, to be a bastard-or that Nicholas would rejoice at the news...