Word: ganders
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...call, though faint, was strong enough to arouse the tame geese on the place. The old Toulouse gander sent back an answering challenge to his wild cousins, while his mates stretched out their necks and screamed to the top of their long throats. They rushed along the dark ground, beating their wings and tipping the grass with their toes, only to wheel pitifully and try again...
Major John Gander, richest and most respected citizen of Lammiter. was a crotchety old bachelor but he had his share of relatives. And at his death they all looked forward rather than back. The will was a great shock to all of them: it left the bulk of his estate to the one who should have become the parent of the most legitimate children in a limited time. As only two of the heirs-apparent were married, and only one of them had a child, the race promised to be interesting. Katherine, the childless wife, went rushing off to meet...
...whose faith was rewarded by twins. But then long-lost George, black sheep of the family, came back from India with a large and dusky family, and it looked as if the prize were his. How the Vicar got into the running, and what a preposterous old man Major Gander's father turned out to have been, let readers discover...
Sauce for the gander being sauce for the goose, last week at the White House Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced jointly with Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins that women, too, would be sent to the woods this summer at Federal expense. An experimental camp was being built at Bear Mountain Park. New York, overlooking the Hudson. Thither this week were to go 25 unmarried, ablebodied, unemployed, penniless women between the ages of 18 and 30. Federal emergency relief funds were to pay $5 board each week for each woman wood-ster. They will not draw pay but will have counselors...
...regard to Mr. Divens' animadversions on undesirables, it is only necessary to remind the reader that sauce to the goose is not always sauce to the gander...