Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief local henchmen of the Lord are Perry Northcutt, thin-lipped banker, and Roxie Biggers, merciless chariteer. Northcutt has it in for young Teeftallow, having failed to mulct him of some intricately inherited timberlands. So Abner learns more about humanity when he and Nessie Sutton come up for public judgment. Nessie is the milliner's assistant- tall, honey-haired, pious, nourished on novels. She and Abner live in the same lodging house, where laws of proximity and physiology grope through a natural course. Roxie Biggers sees their farewell embrace when Abner's work-gang moves away...
...Chauncey, c. 41 12 11 1 0 0 1 1 .268 55 13 4 .944 Ullman, 2b 38 1 10 0 0 0 1 1 .263 31 24 3 .946 Sullivan, s.s. 40 13 10 1 1 1 1 3 .250 5 12 4 .809 Lord 1b. 9 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 .222 15 0 2 .882 DeRham, c. 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .166 9 1 2 .800 Ellison, r.f. 37 2 6 1 0 0 2 2 .160 15 1 0 1.000 Tobin...
...only infield position that does not appear entirely stable is first base. Tobin, a letterman from last war's nine, has been fielding adequately, but his hitting has been weak. Lord is not yet ready to play, but when he returns for practice, probably within the next ten days, Tobin may find himself on the bench with the husky 1928 star covering the first turn...
...sheep and herds of cattle, their joyful vineyards and fields of golden grain, which are now preparing for the merry harvest season. May the happy harvest songs of their busy busy boys and honey-hearted girls soon resound from one end of Jugoslavia to the other, praising the Lord for his abundant harvest blessings...
...Story* of how James O'brien, he that had been Ireland's curly-headed rebel poet before he hushed his tongue and earned the name of Jimmy the Hangman for sitting, iron-jowled, on a high bench of justice as Lord Glenmalure; of how this man married his sweet daughter Connaught to John d'Arcy, a tricky swipe but polished, instead of to fine young Dermot McDermot of Dermotstown, as brave a lad of the old land as was in it, so that she might be a great lady and go about the world instead of stopping...