Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Front. Jolly, dapper Sir Stewart, 48, has kept an eye on Britain's eye troubles since he matriculated at St. Andrews University in 1915. He won high favor with Downing Street circles in 1932 when he saved Fellow Scotsman Ramsay MacDonald from blindness, with two delicate operations on his glaucoma-affected eyes. In 1934, he performed the operation which staved off blindness for the King of Siam...
Nothing Lah-de-dah. Above all there were the Kettles, Tobacco Readers who mismanaged a fertile farm and spent most of their time borrowing from the neighbors. Maw Kettle was a mountainously fat woman in a very dirty housedress. When Author MacDonald visited the Kettles, Maw shouted at the dogs to "stop that goddamn noise." Then she hospitably kicked a path through the dog bones and chicken manure. Author MacDonald staggered; her nose had been dealt "a stinging blow by the outhouse lurking doorless and unlovely" near the porch. Once she ventured to wonder why the Kettles...
...Kettle cattle kept eating up Author MacDonald's garden. One day Bob steamed down to protest. "The dignity and force of his entrance were somewhat impaired by the fact that as he came abreast of the back porch he found himself face to face with Mrs. Kettle, who was comfortably seated in the doorless outhouse reading the Sears, Roebuck catalogue, and instead of hurriedly retiring in confusion, she remained where she was but took active part in the ensuing conversation...
...hard-shelled fact in The Egg and I. Under Author MacDonald's whimsical (and sometimes Rabelaisian) threnody is the consciousness that Bob, tireless, devoted and efficient, was patiently pioneering a successful farm out of some fallen buildings and overgrown fields. He became one of the best chicken farmers in the countryside, and after two years was making so much profit that he could think of buying a bigger & better farm...
...much Author MacDonald has made has not been publicly totted. Sales of her book for the last three months: 256,000 copies...