Word: dads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farmer's daughter. This is because whenever a traveling salesman visits a Japanese farm, daughter is working in the rice fields, chopping wood or feeding the chickens, and the best a poor salesman can hope for is a chat and a cup of tea with dear old dad, who often enough is not doing anything...
FANCY DECANTERS, introduced by liquor companies to boost Christmastime sales, are on the way out. National Distillers, second-ranking U.S. liquor maker (Old Grand-Dad, Old Crow, etc.) will drop its holiday deluge of decanters this winter, figures sales increase is not worth the extra cost of molding, shipping, distributing the fanciful bottles...
Judges did not receive very handsome salaries in those days. Dad did not care a great deal about money, but he was determined that all of his 13 children should have an opportunity to attend college. While serving as chief judge of the Court of Appeals, five of his children were in college at the same time. All of us had been trained in economy, but he soon found that he was running into debt. He therefore resigned in 1916 and reestablished his law practice. He was successful in eight years in discharging his obligations and accumulating a little. Desiring...
...steps of his house and sat down, another one of his sons was sitting there. Marty Daniels, afraid he might hit his brother, passed the rifle to Marksman Ray. "Here," he said, "you do the shooting. You're a better shot than I am." Marty's dad was sitting with his knees up to his chest, and Ray allowed that from that distance (60 ft.), he could hit Daniels any place he wanted. Marty told him to aim so the shot would hit him in the chest. Carefully Ray Edwards aimed the rifle, squeezed the trigger, and shot...
...elusive Junior lost no time on the amenities, plopped his 210-lb. frame into the witness chair, and settled right down to his pleas of possible self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment. He gave his name and address, then began to sound like a tape recording of dear old dad. Beck's bad boy managed to run up 124 uses of the Fifth (papa topped 200), and in one burst of speed tossed off 73 refusals in 20 minutes...