Word: layton
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Part of the justification for retelling all this is Scott's presentation of three exceptional women characters. It seems clear that for the author they are England. One is a tough elderly widow, Maybel Layton, who has foreseen the end of British India for years and feels that it is richly deserved. The second is Mildred, the wife of Colonel Layton, Maybel's stepson. The third is the book's major figure, a retired mission schoolteacher named Barbie Batchelor. She is a good, decent person, not very bright, and downright foolish about matters of practicality and self...
There is some dispute about who invented Crunchy Granola;* at least three claimants have appeared. But everybody agrees that it was popularized by affable, fiftyish Layton Gentry, who has spent the last seven years being a kind of Johnny Granola-seed. In 1965, after experimenting with various recipes for granola as a "freelance baker," Gentry developed a formula that he liked and sold it for $3,000 to Sovex Inc. of Collegedale, Tenn. It caught on not only as a breakfast cereal served with milk and fruit, but also as a snack food eaten by itself and as a base...