Word: halloween
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tomas. Maurice and Tomas had fine times. They were stood in schoolhouse corners together and together they hunted rabbits on the downs, puffins', petrels', and gulls' nests on the cliffs. At Halloween they snared thrushes for a midnight roast, and once at Ventry, on the mainland, they got tipsy on ale and tobacco, gave a sharper a beating and watched great brawny Tigue...
...South Berwick, to "the house my grandfather built and in which my father was born . . . where I whispered up the chimney flue to Santa Claus, roasted apples in the ashes with my brother, started my first novel at the age of six, saw pumpkin faces at the window on Halloween, watched the marshes freeze over, the crab-apple tree blossom, the hay being hurriedly brought to shelter ahead of the storm and the wind blowing the last brown leaves about the yard...
...clown. The Clara Bow month on our buxom cornfed lassies is just another Cumberland gap in disguise, and the termination of Grate Garbo lip in a dimple is the ending of an opera in "Pop Goes the Weasel." But most mouths are nothing more than Halloween scares--impossibilities after the age of 12 years...