Word: haymow
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...mind, for according to the model, he would paint pants on her one day, paint them off the next. He gave his nude a musing, pastoral face and the rosy-brown, gently diffused flesh of warm-weather drowsiness. Against the barn's sober timbers, earth floor and haymow, she has the calm glow of a lamp in daylight...
Cupid, who does just as good business in city parks as he does in a haymow, smiled all over his face last week. New York City reported that marriage licenses were going boom. In the first half of 1941 the city issued 38,918 permits to marry-10,015 more than in the first half of 1940. If the boom zooms, 1941 will be New York City's most nuptial year in history, bigger even than 1917, which turned in 76,149 legal weddings...
...Prizewinner Wallace Stegner, top place was well awarded for a finished performance. Remembering Laughter has a horse-&-buggy era, Iowa setting. Inhibited by his beautiful, strait-laced wife, spirited Farmer McLeod discovers in her equally beautiful but more lifelike younger sister a long-lacked audience and companion. A haymow discovery plus Calvinism plus an illegitimate child turn the McLeod household into one of the least cheerful places in the Middle West. Most exotic of the five novelettes is the somewhat scrambled A Cargo of Parrots, by a pseudonymous English writer 25 years resident in Africa. Central character of the book...