Word: mends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wife Magda, the schoolmaster, the barber, and the pastor, was a simple peasant. All his life he had worked on the bell to hang in the church tower-so long, so hard that, when the bell crashed down the mountainside into the lake, his heart cracked too, would not mend until Rautendelein kissed him and took him with her into the forest. There, with new youth, new courage, he started a second bell, sang praises as he worked. But when the pastor found him, asked him what church the bell was for, he weirdly said "no church," sang on, swearing...
There will be no need on Thursday for the parting adjuration that Harvard Yard must be silent this night. The Yard will be quiet, but not in order that the squad may mend with sleep the experience of being commanded by two thousand men, haute voix, to perform a personal obligation. Under the new arrangement Harvard men who want to cheer their team before it meets Yale can still do so. The cheering will not, however, be done for a team at that moment striving to look dogged and breathe smoke. It will be done for a team that...
...headlined last fortnight as follows: HEFLIN SCENTS PLOT AS BED CRASHES. Last week the Senator and the hotel management, in Asbury Park, N. J., explained. The Senator's story was that two men came to his bedroom door late one evening and said they had come to mend his bed. There were two beds in the room. The Senator asked which they would mend. How did they know in which bed he would sleep? To these astute questions the men could not reply. They could find nothing wrong with the beds. They withdrew. The Senator concluded his story...
About 29 miles away (northwest) is Superior, Wis., on Lake Superior. There, in the high school, will be President Coolidge's office. Governor Fred Zimmerman of Wisconsin swiftly promised to mend the red clay roads in the northwestern corner of his State. Six miles from the Lodge is Brule, a five-street village (unpaved) inhabited by 200 Finnish fishermen. Four miles beyond Brule is Lake Nebagamon and the Congregational Church and Rev. John Taylor. Mr. Taylor is blind, uses a Bible printed in Braille. Perhaps Mr. Taylor will be taken for a cruise on the Navy cutter that will...
...sooner had one Cabinet member gone north (see above), than another went south-Postmaster General Harry Stewart New, to Key West, Fla., for a fortnight, to mend his health...