Word: clapboarded
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...years after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote Christmas Bells in an equally troubled time, the chimes still pealed their message. It came from the tall spires of city churches, echoing off the walls of skyscrapers and through long canyons of street. It came from the tiny iron bells of clapboard churches deep in the nation's farmlands, traveling far & fast over brown, barren fields and dead leaves in the woods...
...William Spence (Fredric March) and his pretty bride (Martha Scott) arrive to take over their first parish. To the ardent young pastor, brimful of Methodism, the whistle-stop town of Laketon, Iowa (circa 1904) looks ripe for good works. To his comfortably nurtured, loving wife, its rutted streets, clapboard buildings, grass-roots manners seem as meager as her husband's yearly salary...
...last June, Mrs. Catherine Groenewegen took over the job of Ralston's postmistress. In summer she made out all right. Then winter came. Mrs. Groenewegen donned her woollies, put on a coat and overshoes. An icy blast swept in through rifts in the ancient clapboard walls, and the floor was none too solid. Mrs. Groenewegen installed an oil stove with three burners, to help the old potbellied stove. Said she dourly: "The place is well ventilated...
...These tents we are living in are not tents at all, but rather cabins. Canvas they do have, but the board floors, over cement blocks, plus clapboard siding, coupled with the glass doors and gas stoves, make for real convenience. However, that wasn't enough. No, the Army has to pass out spring beds, with brand-new mattresses. Still not enough; new mattress covers, great big pillows, also new pillow slips, sheets, and new blankets...
...sixty-eight years ago, the Press has been migratory. It was first established on the second floor of Wadsworth House, then moved to the basement of University Hall and finally come to a halt in Randall Hall. Since 1932 the executive offices have been located in the little yellow clapboard house at 38 Quincey Street...