Word: fetched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gargantuan dish, a rustic circle of savors where each flavor suffers an elision in the interest of the whole, when cooked in Baltimore, without the typical chorizos and garbanzos, became a mere New England boiled dinner. Vexed, nostalgic Quezon dispatched both Dr. Estrada and Secretary Nieto to Washington to fetch the two puchero essentials...
...insure the success of their first show, Carrollton businessmen had gone over to Lexington to fetch grey-thatched, handsome old James T. Looney, best brewer of burgoo stew in northern Kentucky. Over his open air vats, "Burgoomaster" Looney, proud of his 500-gal. iron kettle that was used in the Civil War to make gunpowder, had spent a day and a night brewing 1,500 gallons of burgoo.* Every last dipperful was exhausted before the crowd settled down to a program of speechmaking. On the platform, along with many another bigwig, were Carrollton's Ralph Malcolm Barker, president...
...landed him in jail for debt. A hunter and fisherman, he managed to make a living by selling portraits, did not think of publishing his bird pictures until he" was 35. Birds of America, his most famed set of plates, were engraved in London, began appearing in 1827, now fetch $10,000 for a complete...
...shallow Thornton cannot hold the love of Linda, most colorful member of the family, who turns to Joel, wavers between him and her small son, finally decides to divorce Thornton. Luly, mother and grandmother, dies. When in 1931 Mark Waring decides to sell The Grove for what it will fetch in bad times to save Brad, no one objects. Its day and its kind of hospitality are over...
When he gets his start Slim is only a kid "grunt" (fetch & carrier for the linemen). He wins the respect of his Boss and the protection and affection of Red Blayd, crack lineman, known the country over as an almost legendary figure. Their first job finished, Red takes the Kid along to Chicago where, with the help of Cally and Grace and a big roll, he gives Slim the time of his young life. Then they go on to a new job of rearing towers and stringing wires over the Rocky Mountains, winding up in San Francisco...