Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...casually drew and painted. Evenings, he smoked, played the spinet, and entertained a few local callers. "Day follows day with unvaried movement," he declared; "there is the same level meadow with geese upon it always lying before my eyes: the same pollard oaks: with now and then the butcher or the washerwoman trundling...
Billy McKell would not be the first home-grown Governor General; a distinguished lawyer. Sir Isaac Isaacs, had been that. But Billy would be the first who was an ex-boxer, ex-boilermaker, butcher...
Profits from Rolling. For such infighting, Myer Schine had plenty of rough-&-tumble business experience. A Russian immigrant, he went to school in Jamestown, N.Y., worked as a candy butcher on trains, then as a dress salesman. In 1918, he and his brother plunked down $1,500 in savings to lease a dilapidated building called the Hippodrome at Gloversville, N.Y. (pop: 23,329). With the Hippodrome, variously used as a theater, roller-skating rink and dance hall, he made enough money to buy Gloversville's two movie houses. Snapping up other small-town theaters by the dozen, he soon...
William Morris' verse translation (1887) of the Odyssey came nearest to doing it poetic justice in modern English.* Well-known prose translators-Samuel Butler, S. K. Butcher, T. E. Lawrence-have put it into their own idioms, neither Homer's nor that of poetry. E. V. Rieu's is the best of the more modest prose translations intended as transparencies, making it easy for the reader to follow the Odyssey as a wondrous novel of adventure...
...assault on British wartime policies and "politics" which told more about Author Ingersoll than it did about the British. No top-ranking general told his own story, though Katherine Tupper Marshall told her husband's, Ike Eisenhower had a tactful Boswell in his naval aide, Harry C. Butcher (My Three Years with Eisenhower), and General Lewis H. Brereton published his diaries, which made him out a far duller man than his fellow flyers knew him to be. The war in China was presented from an anti-Chiang point of view by Theodore H. White and Annalee Jacoby in Thunder...