Word: faraway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indian Territory, after serving apprentice- ship as driller, muleskinner, roustabout in the oilfields of Illinois. In 1913 he sold out his holdings in Illinois for $2,500,000; last year his Southwestern holdings brought him $45,000,000 from Prairie Oil & Gas. During his funeral in faraway Clarion, all drilling and pumping operations in the Oklahoma City oilfield were stilled...
...squalid, sweltering Muscat last week the Sultan of Oman was glad within him: from Washington had come good news. Henry Lewis Stimson, the faraway, almost mythical Secretary of State of the U. S. was in a mood to play Santa Claus. His gift: revision of a treaty into which Sultan Seyed Syeed Bey was inveigled by shrewd Yankee traders 97 years ago. which provided that U. S. citizens should always be welcomed to Oman's ports, be free to sell or barter their wares without being charged a tariff duty of more than 5%. Also included was a clause...
...clear feminine eye saw her wilful daughter with understanding but helpless despair. Nothing permanently troubled Tycoon Plimsoll's occasionally anxious optimism. The "big toad in the one-toad puddle of Lakeville," he could arrange situations to suit himself. Ineligible but attractive young men were shipped off to faraway posts; harmless, ambitious eligibles were invited to dinner. Father Plimsoll did not even shrink from employing a detective. But his best-laid plans did not so much go wrong as turn inside out, a trick of Fate's (or Author Kahler's) which enabled him to refrain from beating...