Word: erful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since there was one more sign than H.L.U.'er, they persuaded a small boy at Haverhill to carry...
...service, could stand some improvement. They recommended that the Biblical text generally called the "eleventh commandment" be added. It reads: "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." *Explained the Rev. R. F. Palm er, one of the motion's sponsors: "We feel this change is necessary to give the commandments more punch. Because people's morals are not good enough today, there is a crying need for the revival of these commandments in everyday life...
Models in Manuscript. Author Wecter brings to life the real models of dozens of people and incidents in Mark Twain's books. Huck Finn was Tom Blankenship, the happy, shiftless son of a ne'er-do-well drunk. Sid Sawyer was modeled after Sam's own brother Henry. "Injun Joe," sometimes known as "Injun Aleck," was a drifter from Oklahoma who, according to rumor, had once "somehow lost his interest" in his mother, and hanged her. There really was a cave downriver from Hannibal, too, and Sam himself was once lost in it with a young lady...
Flashed o'er the "wires the fateful message came...
...this St. Friskin's Day shall ne'er...