Word: caul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark and harried look yesterday. After rescheduling the twice-postponed opener with Boston College for today at 4 o'clock, the Varsity base ball coach got word that center fielder James Kenary had been operated on for appendicitis and a couple of more hours later saw night fielder John Caul-field got spiked in a practice drill...
...Kuester may pace the center aisle of the farrowing barn like an expectant father. Often he beds down wakefully in an unoccupied farrowing pen. Most pig births are normal, but sometimes a little pig needs to be helped into the hungry world. Sometimes one is born in a covering caul which has to be ripped off by a profit-motivated finger. Sometimes the heaving, grunting sows, from weakness, clumsiness or distress, lie or roll on their farrow. Sometimes they try to eat them. Sweeter to a pig farmer's ear than the ethereal fluting of the prairie lark...
Traditionally, divas are prey to harmless superstitions. Lily Pons, born with a caul on a Friday the 13th, counts 13 her lucky number. She asks for room 1313 in hotels, buys souvenirs (like South American birds) by the baker's dozen; her house in Silvermine, Conn. bears the street number 13. So, by her and Kosty's account, she held out for 13 proposals of marriage, then straightway accepted. They were married in June...
...Illya) Culbertson. Born Rumania 1891 of a Cossack mother and a Scotch-Pennsylvanian mining engineer. Born partially covered with a caul, was marked from early childhood as a man of luck and destiny. Lived most of youth in Russia...