Word: dooryard
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...doors open about 18 inches, and squeezed through. Then she reached in, pulled Roberta out. carried her through waist-deep water to the river bank, 15 feet away, and started walking. At 5:50, dripping wet and covered with mud, she reached Farmer Reuben Schupbach's dooryard. The farmer drove her to Hardtner at top speed, but Mrs. Munsell was too near her time for doctors to get her ready for the delivery room. At 6:40, still mud-spattered, she was delivered of a healthy, six-pound...
...TIME serious in its Oct. 22 description of Walt Whitman as an "anarchic old yawper?" Does TIME dismiss then such treasures of American literature as "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "O Captain! My Captain!" "Bivouac on a Mountain Side," and "Song of Myself" to be the mere yawping of an anarchist...
...address was broadcast by loudspeaker to overflow crowds that thronged the Yard, most standing in silent homage. Dean Sperry concluded with the quotation of Walt Whitman's elegy to President Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed...
Over the bright new stone and whitewash museum that stood at the other end of the dooryard they brooded like a couple of aging hens over a porcelain egg. Grumbled George: "Those buildings they're putting up aren't adequate. Candidly I never saw a carriage shed anywhere like those out there. That's just an architect's imagination, that is." Said Brother Henry philosophically: "Well, we want these things to be where people can see and study them." Descended from a long line of Pennsylvania Dutch, they were brought up in a well...
...World War II, and under its first real gunfire in Congress, with his idealistic world in realistic ruins, he stands at the pinnacle of his career. The most conservative member of the Roosevelt Cabinet of New Dealers, he is its best-loved. He seems meek, but the Department dooryard is figuratively heaped with the bones of bolder, shaggier men who have tried to elbow him to one side...