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Pierre Laval, 58, whose swart skin may be traceable to Moorish ancestry, was born twelve miles from Vichy at Chaåteldon, where he now owns an old chateau (see cut, p. 29). His father was the innkeeper, butcher and one-man post office. As a boy, Pierre haggled with his father's customers, was known as a vicious bully...
...steadily as a butcher's slicing machine, the War Production Board trimmed new layers of fat off the U.S. standard of living. Out for the duration went all the kitchen gadgets which modern housewives had substituted for grandma's elbow grease: electric toasters, waffle irons, mixers, dishwashers. Out went the nursery's tin soldiers and electric trains...
...erosion more than murder. He said so in church and out. "All of this here," he told one irate farmer, pointing to the 15-ft. gullies in his fields, "that is the work of the devil. It is a work against God. . . . God never intended that farmers should butcher up land. You and other farmers have ruined a good hill farm." "Ignorant churn-headed fool!" he added, out of hearing. Old McDonald decided to spend the rest of his life reclaiming that ruined farm...
...smashed, shrieks. Every so often 'Geechee would stagger in to reassure her: "Kate an' Raymond's fightin', but don't you worry." "The bacon done burnt itself up, but don't you fret." "Kate is chasin' Raymond thu the grove with a butcher knife. But you jes' lay still and don't worry." So now 'Geechee comes to see Mrs. Rawlings once a year. She is always a little drunk. She says "they ain't nothin' nobody can do about...
Close throughout, the battle opened with the ineffectual attempts of either squad to carry the puck even close to the opposing twines. 'La Croix broke the lethargy with a dash from the blue line, passed to Tilman, who flipped in turn to Butcher, whose goal-mouth pass to the Puritans captain, coach, and star made possible the opening score...