Word: jamestowne
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...monkey), after Martyr's description, turned out to be the Boschrot of Dutch explorers, the rat de bois of Louisiana's French trappers, didelphys in the classic zoology of Linnaeus and finally the modern opossum. This is the Indian name as recorded by Captain John Smith at Jamestown. But even Smith was wrong, said the King's surveyor in Carolina. The word was possum, preceded by a grunt, hence the opossum...
Extremity. In Jamestown, N.Y., when his teacher told 15-year-old Anthony Foti that only a broken leg would be an excuse for missing the next day's exam, he went out to play football, broke...
Peggy always trusted her instinct in such matters, and it kept her close to the big time for a dozen years, while V-2-type careers were exploding all around her. She was singing before she could talk properly, back in Jamestown, N.Dak., where she was born Norma Egstrom 32 years ago. Eventually, she got up the nerve to give Hollywood a teen-age whirl, got a singing job at $2 a night, but soon landed back home with an overstrained throat that required five operations. After that, she had to learn to sing softly...
Horrses to Warter. While she lived there, Lucille did her best to rid Jamestown of dullness. Sometimes she gilded reality by imagining that the family chicken coop was her palace ("The chickens would become my armies"). She remembers that she was always unmanageable in the spring. "I'd leave the classroom for a drink of water and never come back. I'd start walking toward what I thought was New York City and keep going until someone brought me home...
...Aunt ("I played the lead, directed it, cast it, sold the tickets, printed the posters, and hauled furniture to the school for scenery and props"). In a Masonic musical revue, she put so much passion into an Apache dance that she threw one arm out of its socket. Jamestown citizens still remember her explosive personality with wonder: it took quite a while for the dust to settle in Jamestown when Lucille finally left-for Manhattan...