Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the 19-year-olds was Guy Hawkins, who had been in the first grade for eight years. One evening, when Teacher Stuart was working late at the school, Guy came back. "I aim to whip you," he said. "It's the same place where I whipped your sister." The two men fought, but this time it was Guy who took the beating...
...school's tin roof, the pine boards sweated resin, and the smaller pupils dropped off to sleep. In winter "after the white frosts had fallen and blanketed the frozen land . . . many times I saw the red spots . . . from the bleeding little bare feet of those who came to school regardless of shoes." Jesse had to cure pretty 14-year-old Vaida Conway of spitting tobacco juice on the schoolhouse walls, and furtive Alvin Purdy of scribbling obscenities in the privy...
...Next came Robert's elder brother...
Best Friend. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Joyce Brainard won her divorce after testifying that when her husband came home at night he kissed the dog before he kissed...
Legend has it the President Lowell determined the pattern of windows that he wanted in Lowell House, and then left the architects to fit the rooms in behind as best they could. If a bathroom. came behind a main window, or if a man could not stand up in more than half of his top floor room, it was considered unfortunate but unavoidable...