Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About all that little Joe ever did was brush the flies off the horses' big rumps while his old man did the shoeing. Little Joe never actually worked at his father's trade. But he grew up to have his old man's squat, thick-knit build. And in the politician's trade, which Joe Martin took up, he worked somewhat in the manner of a blacksmith-a nail here, a nail there, working most of the time close to the ground...
When Russians build on frozen ground, they sink piles deep into the permafrost, melting the holes with steam jets. The piles are then wrapped in tar paper and greased, so that the topsoil, freezing and thawing with the seasons, cannot stick to them and heave them. But piles are scarce in much of Alaska, and Army engineers think they know something better: thick insulating mats to keep the permafrost always frozen...
Edward Finnegan, and elderly gentleman who naturally portrays the elderly Major Petkoff, seems the only character capable of conjuring up any comedy. The others, in their assorted attempts to build emotional rhapsodies, burlesque the Shavian wit rather than convey it. Settings, neatly done by Matt Horner, demonstrate his expertness and the effects achievable by an outfit operating on a shoe-string basis...
...leads a disciplined life and exercises a military discipline over others. He is even-tempered, courteous, gracious to the ladies. In the fieldstone house which he had the state build as the governor's summer mansion in Indiantown Gap, his polished boots and riding clothes are arranged in precise ranks. There his wife, Charity, has lovingly collected Pennsylvania Dutch antiques. One of the General's chief diversions is riding over the smoky Blue Mountains. He does not care so much for the old gloomy governor's house in Harrisburg...
...Three Wise Fools" is no exception. Miss O'Brien believes in pixies and things, but Edward Arnold, Lionel Barrymore, and Lewis Stone, the old meanies, want nothing to do with pixies and things. All they want is to build a Greek Theatre on a piece of property Miss O'Brien owns. She won't let them do it, on account of the pixies and things live there. A compromise is finally reached, the land is made a park, and the theatre doesn't get built, which is too bad, especially considering that the pixies and things will live happily forever...