Word: farmhand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pious father could not abide him. (I was the first Rounsevell ever to drink, curse and play cards.} From an Irish grandfather he acquired "a sense of humor, a taste for good liquor, a go-to-hell attitude." At 13 he left home, became in turn a farmhand, livery stableboy. book agent, hobo, telegraph lineman, miner, carpenter, banker. In 1913 he swore off liquor, has been a teetotaler ever since. (There are few men who in 18 years enjoyed more whiskey hilarity, exhaled more whiskey halitosis, suffered more whiskey headaches or caused more whiskey heartaches and tears.) For a while...
...City last week Warden Roy Best put a crated hog. When he turned on the gas the hog squealed, struggled, died. Next into the chamber he put an old dog, a pigeon, a brace of canaries. They all died. Nearby in a cell sat William Cody Kelley, shifty-eyed farmhand. Refused clemency, he prayed quietly for his pretty 23-year-old wife, his 4-month-old baby. Unable to finance an appeal, he was to be the first man executed in Colorado without a review of his case by the State Supreme Court. And now for killing Russell Browning, Delta...
...great pals. Though Louise was a Manhattanite she found herself quickly at home on the farm, won the approval of the neighbors by her ready backchat and friendly ways. She won more than approval from Guy Crane, a rising young married farmer, and from Simon, Grandpa's taciturn farmhand: but she kept things fairly well under control. To make the plotters show their hand Grandpa pretended to go crazy. Unmasked at last, they were shown the door, and Grandpa and Louise breathed easily again. When Grandpa died, leaving Louise mistress of the farm, Guy had the decency to clear...