Word: lively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Father Allen went. He said he would rather live only six months more, usefully, in Africa, than ten years more in the U. S., where "a priest 70 years old is not wanted much." Last week came news that Father Allen had died, aged 79, in the mission of Bolahun. Liberia, whither his Lord had called...
...real live elephants...
...commands a host of readers. Sensitive to nuances of a bygone age, he distills the essence of proverbial Southern romance, imprisons it in luxuriant prose: "The deep South, like a conservatory, was sweet with flowers. The isolated burial grounds, approached by avenues of cedars, and shaded with willows and live oaks and linden, were planted with white flowers-Cape jasmines, bridal wreath, white japonica, sweet alyssum and white althea. In the strange white radiance of Alabama moonlight white flowers-Cherokee roses, the night-blooming cereus, moon flowers and honey-suckle-were sweeter than at any other time. . . . "Yet, against...
Philadelphia merchant, saved his heirs $10,000,000 in inheritance taxes and per-haps did pioneer work in will-making when he started, several years before his death at 84, in 1922, making confident, frequent, undoubtedly sincere statements that he expected to live to be 100. When, at 82, he transferred business interests valued at $36,000,000 to his son, the late Lewis Rodman Wanamaker, he clearly did not do so "in contemplation of death." Thus ruled the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals last week...
...Then the Mayflower people came to see me. After looking over their rooms I accepted their proposition. ... I didn't haggle. ... I pay my bills regularly and expect to pay them every month I live here. Nobody's giving me anything...