Word: fante
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...remedy the situation, Kipp plans to have these people leave books at the desk for the girls to put away. In this way, the library hopes to make it easier and quicker for other students to get what they fant...
Egypt's Tutankhamen collected walking sticks; Hermann Wilhelm Göring collects stag antlers. You can never tell what a collector is going to collect or why. A woman in Richmond avidly collects toy elephants- for the excellent reason that her name is Mrs. L. E. Fant. The ferocious Ferrante, King of Naples, was fond of collecting his political enemies, whom he had executed, stuffed and mounted, and kept tastefully arrayed in a special room in his palace...
...then Fant turns up, a love-hungry fugitive, among the tobacco leaves. There are trysts like "that moonless July night, when Fant's whistle had wooed her out to the walnut grove." Two daughters are the result of these whistles. In their wake comes ostracism. For nobody on earth must know that hunted murderer Fant is still alive...
Later on, Fant's death restores America's good name. She still has her moments. She powders the webs of 100,000 Mississippi Bayou spiders with gold and silver dust for a treacherous daughter's highfalutin wedding. But the latter part of Drivin' Woman is an account of the bracing fight of the small tobacco farmers against the Trust. Descriptions of raising, grading, priming and selling tobacco result in a fragment of U.S. social-and-economic history so simple and sound that not even Mrs. Chevalier's panchromatic prose can make it much less...