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After her first Monday's hunt, she was invited to cook steaks over the living-room fire at the home of her neighbor. Paul Fout, who sells hunters and rides amateur races. Other guests included Nelson ("Monk") Noland of Warrenton, who owns the Fauquier Laundry; James (Jim) Wiley of Middleburg, who breeds and raises thoroughbreds at Benton Farm near Middleburg; and Mrs. Magalen Crane of The Plains, who hunts with Orange County...
...parish school before the war, had a brilliant record in the Front National, in which Catholics and Communists fought the Germans side by side. In his marked northern accent he quotes from Cardinal Newman and Plato, but he also uses proletarian vulgarisms such as "On s'en fout" (an untranslatable idiom which means, roughly, the hell with it), and slang such as "Celui-là, on le descendra" (that fellow's going to get bumped...
...possibility of his indictment, had not until last week answered the widely-circulated charges against him. Last week he declared that he had indeed called on Mr. Mc-Cray for the McDonald appointment, not with cash or immunity in hand but at the request of Bishop H. H. Fout of the United Brethren sect. Bishop Fout last week corroborated this statement so far as he was able...
...committee of the Governing Committee of the Board of Overseers met Wednesday evening at the Somerset Club. The Presidents of the fout classes had been invited to attend this meeting in order that the Overseers might ascertain more fully the feeling of the undergraduates in regard to the proposals made at the last meeting of the Board. The meeting was entirely unofficial and was held simply with the view of discovering how much truth there is in the articles which have recently been published, and also of discovering whether or not the tendency of the undergraduates in regard...