Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington he cuts even less ice. An Elk, a 32nd degree Mason and a Shriner, he spends most of his time at home. His wife, who calls him "Senator," drives the family Buick. Regarded by his friends as a loyal New Dealer and by his enemies as a humdrum Main Street politician, George McGill is not so sleepy as he looks. On one occasion, barnstorming in a Kansas campaign, he was scoring opposition leaders by name...
...main event, the 250-target all-gauge shoot, a comparative oldster of 28, Henry Bourne Joy Jr.. turned in an extraordinary performance-a perfect score of 250, something that had never been done before. Skeeter Joy, son of the late Henry B. Joy, onetime president of Packard Motor Car Co. and famed skeet pioneer in the Midwest, lost his right eye in a shooting accident five years ago. now shoots left-handed-and better than ever...
...tannic acid of tree-sap is as actively disease-resistant as human blood; and 2) the circulatory system of a tree will by suction pressure carry medicine to diseased organs just as effectively as does the bloodstream, Tree Man John Casterline attached a rubber hose to the taproot (main root) of a chestnut tree, planted the other end in a gallon of tannic acid. Within a day, the acid working upward with the sap had begun to check the fungus. Once the parasite was killed, the trees began to flourish again. For protection the acid tanks were allowed to remain...
...studios. Until four, no visiting is permitted, and then only with special permission. At dinner, in The Mansion's dining room, six tables accommodate the guests, who are shifted frequently to freshen conversation, prevent the formation of cliques. The food is famed. Coffee is served in the main parlor, where guests are expected to be interesting but not read manuscripts. Around ten, when Mrs. Ames retires, guests are expected to go to bed, too, not slip off to Saratoga for a beer. In this Yaddo differs from the MacDowell Colony at Peterborough, N. H., where village beer has been...
...chief interest in Biographer Pearson's own life is the period he spent as an officer in Persia during the War; he outstared and outran the natives, boasts of making tough army men eat out of his hand. Of main interest to the reader are his anecdotes of George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton, Frank Harris, Hilaire Belloc, Conan Doyle. The best of them-a sizzling dialogue, between Shaw and Chesterton, Frank Harris' belligerent interview with Galsworthy-are secondhand. Also among the secondhand are such random anecdotes as one concerning a friend of a friend who once found himself...