Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...park bench Widow Becker chatted with Marie Ramache Lambert, who said she was lonely and asked Widow Becker to come up some time and do some needlework. Mme Lambert made a will leaving 400,000 francs to Widow Becker, died...
Last week mountain folk from near & far gathered on the hills near Ashland, Ky. for Ashland's 8th annual American Folk Song Festival. Local roads were choked by the unaccustomed burden of some 6,000 tourists who had come to see the fun. Present were such upland musical celebrities as bristle-bearded Fiddler Jilson Setters and Brother Dawson of Rowan County, who leads his Gregorian Chanters through old liturgical chants. Also present, in full plaid regalia, were ballad-singing Director Lyda Messer Caudill, direct hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots, and Author Jean Thomas,* "traipsin' woman...
...equipped with a pressurized cabin like Boeing's Stratoliner, Douglas Engineer Arthur E. Raymond had the answer ready: "While it is possible to install a pressurized cabin on the DC-4, now being tested, there is nothing to be gained by doing so. ... All subsequent models will come out with that feature built in. Necessary additions ... do not change either the basic structure of the airplane or its interior arrangement...
...they began to fight. The purser said the captain was trying to wreck the boat. A steward fought the cook because "we had canned pears too often." The captain said the chief engineer had stolen 20 barrels of white lead. The captain's wife refused to come to dinner. The captain chased a passenger from the pantry because she was helping the assistant cook dry the dishes. A passenger announced she would pay $500 to have the captain beaten up. The assistant cook discovered she was pregnant and headed upriver by dog team. The chief engineer left...
Three stories attempt more complex situations. In the subtlest of these. Return to Lavinia, a storekeeper returns from his honeymoon with a schoolteacher, reassures his mulatto housekeeper that she will always come first...