Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pride not only to the color of Author Harriss' style but to the knowledgeable way he handles the Carolinian flora and fauna, not to speak of human whites and blacks. And readers need to be neither centaurs nor Southerners to see in this little book (240 pp.) a lot of life...
...wrapped in sheets from the London Sunday Graphic for Sept. 15 and the Aug. 5 and 7 issues of Labor's Daily Herald. Finally Ratanji went somewhat surgically berserk, butchering and slashing the chunks of flesh that had been wife & nurse and at last contriving to dump the lot into a narrow Scottish ravine appropriately known to local rustics as "The Devil's Beef...
...canvases shown were a succession of hulking figures, mostly nude and vaguely classical, painted in the earthy browns, yellows and reds of early Italian frescoes. Best of the lot was Mario Tozzi's solidly painted Farmer's Dream, a portrait of a plump, prosperous and sleepy-eyed husbandman, seated at a country café table by a jug of wine...
...work going, on the legitimate ground that Congress had never authorized this canal's construction. Last week Representatives were greatly surprised to find that President Roosevelt had dribbled out another $200,000 in relief funds to the canal, was evidently in a mood to dribble out a lot more from his extra-budget basket if Congress would not supply the cash...
...interest Father in a little proposition in the Congo. Writes Evalyn: "It makes me happy to remember now that, after years and years of hard knocks and worry, my daddy was so quickly recognized, when he had riches, as more than just a man with gold." He had a lot of Government bonds...