Word: loring
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...feels fortunate in having a real Maine woods guide, one of the last of a dying race, in its employ. Ross McKenny is in charge of the woods lore division and acts as judge and referee in the annual spring Woodsman's Weekend...
...Jewish lore, a "dybbuk" is the soul of someone who dies without fulfilling his destiny; to earn eternal rest, the soul must return to earth and find fulfillment in the body of somebody else. The Dybbuk of Russian Playwright S. Ansky has been an international stage classic for 30 years. A lot of people were sure it would make first-class opera, but all attempts seemed to end in failure...
...problems of Congressmen than most Congressmen themselves. In the 1920s, an ex-sergeant of the A.E.F., he got a job running an elevator in the Capitol, and not only transported Presidents Wilson, Harding and Coolidge in his car, but used it as a vantage point to absorb the lore and atmosphere of Capitol Hill...
...fond hope of many, but what about such details as a special compartment to hold golf clubs, such as is found in Packards of the early thirties? The rumble seat, famed in Americana, is now vanished with the cigar store Indian, and the touring car, fabled in our native lore, has folded its side curtains and drifted off into the oblivion of the junk yard, except for a few still kept running by aficianados...
...University of Pennsylvania's OWEN J. ROBERTS, 76, who in 1948 became the first U.S. Supreme Court Justice ever to serve as dean of a law school after leaving the bench. A man with a phenomenal memory and a mind crammed with courtroom lore, he was a patient, polite professor ("Well, that's close to it. .." he would say when a student gave a wrong answer), in four years did more to enhance the national prestige of the law school than any other dean before...