Word: englands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tarzan (1915)-the ape-man was married to Miss Jane Porter of Baltimore, Md. by the latter's father, Professor Archimedes Q. Porter. The ceremony took place in the little cabin on the African coast where Tarzan was born, and through it Jane became Lady Greystoke of England, since Tarzan was a nobleman by birth...
Having spent the war years in France, the sisters arrive in New England with their hearts set on founding a children's hospital. The fact that they have neither land nor money-and not even the wholehearted support of the bishop of the diocese-is no particular worry to them. The motto of the Order of Holy Endeavor, to which they belong, is Oramus et Laboramus (We pray and work). Sisters Margaret and Scholastica do more than that...
...mosquitoes, Cleaveland's men followed the paths their axmen hacked through the oak and hemlock. When food gave out, they broiled rattlesnakes, washed the meat down with rum. At the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, the leader paced off a ten-acre town square in the New England tradition, and set some of his men to work building log-cabin shelters. Result: Cleveland, Ohio-lacking an "a" because the party's mapmaker left...
Running a fast eye over the Western Reserve's 150-year history, Author Hatcher traces its mushrooming from a scattering of lonely, mud-bogged farms and white, New England-style towns into today's mill-studded industrial area. There is a sharp parallel between Cleaveland's early settlers and the impoverished mid-igth Century immigrants from Europe who also got a new hold on life in Ohio...
Author Steen is more in her element when Johnny comes marching home to break his heart in late-Victorian England -a world of hansom cabs and monocled cads, where every girl is in danger of losing something called her "reputation" and every man's favorite cuss word is a sibilant "Pish!" Still Author Steen does not fuss too much about period accuracy: her male characters speak fluent, up-to-date