Word: davision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During 50 years of farming at Hiawatha, Kans., John M. Davis accumulated a half million dollars and a long white beard. He also developed a turned-down nose, a turned-down mouth and a suspicious and belligerent eye. John M. Davis had a problem and he wrestled with it morning...
Everybody wanted his money. It seemed to John M. Davis that he couldn't spit, scratch or let down his galluses without somebody scheming up something to do with it. His relatives wanted it. Everybody else wanted it-they wanted him to build a hospital or a swimming pool...
Then, in 1930, when his wife Sarah died, he got the answer. After he buried her he called in the local tombstone merchant, and told him to get to work. He wanted a tomb as big as a house, with six polished stone pillars and a shiny granite roof as...
As the years passed, ten more statues of Sarah and John M. Davis were set up in the tomb. There was Sarah as a young wife and Sarah as an old wife, standing and gazing. There was John sitting with Sarah; there was John sitting beside an empty marble chair...
At first, U.N. officials could not even remember who had suggested the rock in the first place. One functionary recalled that the name of the sponsoring organization had contained the word "Friendship." Another remembered distinctly that it had something to do with Massachusetts schoolchildren. Finally the truth emerged: the rock...