Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed, galloping away in a billowing cloud of dust if the automobiles paused. Running with one of these herds was a lone mule. Here and there lay the dismembered bodies of colts slain by cougars. Now and again a jack rabbit would scamper across the trail. Towards night the distant yelping of coyotes was audible...
That evening, Jean Paul Baptiste Yvonne Fippany, the chicken-wagon man, had surrendered to portly, black-eyed Mrs. Fippany about going to a town to live. She had long hinted at it (in a quiet voice, sweet as distant bells) and finally, just before supper, openly rebelled. It was because of the child, Addie, of course, not Mrs. Fippany's health at all. And Mr. Fippany surrendered by telling Breaksteel, the beagle puppy, they would give up trading tin pans and cups and gaudy Bibles and lithographs and pain-killers and perfumed hair-kink removers for chickens and eggs...
...stroke, over their meals, to be enthusiastic. What though Von Elm, Jess Sweetser, Guilford, Mackensie and the rest had come to compete in the National Amateur? The waiters asked questions about the Shenandoah (See Page 31); they interested themselves in the acrobatics of dice and the scores of distant baseball teams...
...aged golfers, bunting their balls in a hollow of the course of the St. Louis Country Club, were startled by the sudden apparition of a figure on a distant hill. Cut against the sky, there was nothing in the silhouette (it was that of a lean youth in golf clothes, carrying a club in his hand) that would itself have caused alarm. But instead of the measured stride of the golfer, this youth employed a furious, irregular lope. Suddenly, without a waggle, in a pause that hardly broke his stride, his club described an invisible arc; several seconds afterward, pushing...
Reported Engaged. Ileana, 16, "prettiest daughter of Queen Marie of Rumania and King Ferdinand," to the Duke of Apulia, 26, distant kinsman of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy. Ileana's less handsome sisters are respectively Elisabeth, exiled Greek Queen and Marie, YugoSlavian Queen. Princess Ileana, although tender in years has already, according to reports, been about to wed the Prince of Wales and King Boris of Bulgaria...