Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children; now the same houses have only about a dozen widows. Said an oldster: "None of the kids ever comes back here to live after they've gone away to school." Perry Wilson, editor of the town's newspaper, died, and the paper died with him. John Butt, 82-year-old ex-mayor, lives alone on the edge of town since his wife died. His three sons are working in Detroit...
...Devil also became the butt of some of the first fine sallies of Yankee humor. One of them is an ancestor of a long posterity of country-bumpkin v. city-slicker witsnappers that pass current to this...
Twice a year, the select, exclusive and somewhat stuffy organization of 50 Washington newsmen known as the Gridiron Club holds a white-tie dinner and frolic in the capital. Traditionally, the guest of honor and principal butt of the Gridironers' jokes is the President of the U.S. Last December, Harry Truman, who does not enjoy the club's satire, was able to miss the Gridiron frolic because he was acquiring a less painful burn, in the sun at Key West, Fla. Although Gridironers were miffed, the club nevertheless invited the President to its May meeting. This time...
Last Drag. In St. Louis, Motorist Carl Simon finished smoking his cigar, heaved it out the car window, is still looking for two front teeth that came loose from his dental plate and went sailing out with the butt...
Belgium's most famous modern artist, Baron James Ensor, was 89 when he died last year. He had crammed his house with souvenirs that ranged from a cigar butt once left there by Belgium's King Albert to a great painting done by Ensor himself 62 years ago: The Entry of Christ into Brussels...