Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have never read one of her books, Susan Spray is a good one to begin on. If you fear being bored to extinction by heavy dialect and heavy characters clodhopping to a country tragedy, take heart: there is enough irony, humanity, sly humor to leaven a much heavier lump...
...away, the swilers debark and scramble over 20 miles of broken ice to find them. The hunt itself ?the men deploying to stalk the seals, killing them with shotguns?is ably but too briefly photographed. Tragic is the situation of one squeaking white baby seal, stuck to a lump of ice; when his mother pauses to nose him off, both are shot. After the hunt, the sealers haul their "sculps" (seal skins) back across the ice. The jinker and his rival get left behind in a blizzard, the story sets in again...
...Lines lost $728,000; this year they will lose more. The gist of Mr. Chapman's S. O. S. was that the Government should take back all or part of the fleet, allow United States Lines to operate them for the Government's account; or after payment of a lump...
...outer clothes as usual. But the chewing gum oozed and blobbered from Mr. Trahan's lips, was stuck under the piano, retrieved, chewed, stuck again, smeared on the piano keys, frantically stretched in all directions, finally gathered together for the supreme effort of mirth. This comes when the lump appears beneath Mr. Trahan's posterior and he hastily sits down on it, thus sticking himself to the piano stool where he antics gummily in mad dismay...
Lydia Southard had a way with men She married Robert Dooley and he died. She married William Gordon McHavie and he died. She married Harlan C. Lewis and he died. She married Edward M. Meyer and he died.* After each death she collected a big lump of insurance. She was on her fifth honeymoon when she was arrested, put on trial for murder at Twin Falls, Idaho, in 1921. The State attempted to show that she was a chronic husband poisoner, did prove that she killed Meyer with a deadly fly mixture. Mrs. Southard, then 29, was sent...