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...larger one, size of a fist. He turned away, and within three minutes was shot down stone dead. I don't know why. The high sheriff came. Men set off upriver and down, running with guns in their hands. A woman cried, "Oh Bonny, my uncle's jist got his brains shot...
...aint a gittin much larnin in this hyar kollege sose if u wants ter git hitched rite away, i am reddy. Be shore ter let me no sose i can walk home ter git pa ter stop feudin for a hour or so. aint love jist the most wonderful thing? Suzanne Adair Williams, Texas State College for Women, Denton, Texas...
...These hills are jist dirt waves, washing through eternity. My brethren, they hain't a valley so low but what hit'll rise again. They hain't a hill standing so proud but hit'll sink to the low ground o' sorrow. Oh, my children, where air we going on this mighty river of earth, aborning, begetting, and a-dying-the living and the dead riding the waters . . .?" Author Still restrains even this. His boy hero goes to sleep; another begins inattentively to whittle...
First came the troops, their uniforms a martial palette. Militiamen in grey & white from the "Old Seventh" Regiment; the jist Infantry in blue & white; the 102nd Engineers in scarlet; the 102nd Medical Unit in maroon; the "Old Sixty-Ninth" in blue with green facings; the "Washington Grays" in grey with flashing sabres. Cheerful CCC workers livened their olive drab uniforms with sprigs of hemlock in their caps. Their banner announced: "We Do Our Part For The NRA; We Work In The Woods...
...late great father, the elegant, hawk-nosed Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) kept firmly screwed in his face all through his long and distinguished parliamentary career. It was exactly such a tariff program, right down to the 10% basic rate, that he fought for until stricken with paralysis in his jist year. In tribute to "Old Joe," as his Birmingham constituents fondly called him, all Conservative members of the House rose from their seats when his boy Neville finished speaking. They faced the distinguished visitors' gallery, where sat a little old U. S.-born lady now known as Mrs. William Hartley...