Word: carting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week gifts of holiday food reached the White House in abundance. President Hoover went outside to greet the driver of a creaky old cart which a pair of oxen had drawn from Maine. In the cart were 40 bu. of Maine potatoes, a present from Governor Gardiner. Three days later Maine potatoes were sent out to Washington's relief agencies for distribution among the poor...
...large. In direct antithesis we have Thomas Hardy, writing in the fullness of his fatalism "that thought is a disease of the flesh." The Vagabond will not sit in judgment over either of the gentleman. He has lost all interest in Mr. Shaw since he trundled his apple cart from Warsaw to New York at a considerable financial remuneration. But he is very interested in the door Thomas Hardy...
...almost mysterious figure. His hatred of publicity has never drawn him into the limelight. A Maine boy, a Harvardman, he winters in Boston and Manhattan, summers at artistic MacDowell Colony, Peterboro, N. H., does much of his writing there. Poverty once drove him to take a job as dump cart inspector on a subway construction. When Theodore Roosevelt was President he read and liked Robinson's poetry, offered him a consulship in Mexico which Robinson refused. Tall, thin, baldish, spectacled, with a mustache partly concealing his hypersensitive mouth, Poet Robinson never talks about his own poetry, never criticizes other...
Rhode Island State College at Kingston, R. I. has 612 students and 49 professors. Also, it owns a herd of 40 fine cows. For the last 39 years, professors who wished milk were obliged to go to the cowbarn with a can and cart it home as best they could. Last week it was announced that milk will hereafter be bottled and delivered to faculty members. Cost: 12? the quart...
Swart, stocky Pierre Laval was born in the barren, backward region of Auvergne in the little village of Châteldon. His father was a grocer. Young Pierre used to drive a butcher's cart. It is the Laval legend that the village priest discovered him one day delivering salami and reading Ovid. He helped him with his studies. Pierre Laval became a schoolmaster, then a lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in Paris and in due time became Mayor of Aubervilliers. In May 1914 he became a Deputy and was listed almost immediately as a violent Socialist. When...