Word: menfolk
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...Morgan-has been debunked before, but not from this special feminine viewpoint. That is what lends interest to this sagebrush history, based largely on the reminiscences of the late Allie Sullivan Earp, who sat down with Author Waters in 1936 to recall the days when her family's menfolk were the scourge of Tombstone, Ariz...
...years after the Great Potato Famine, a dozen tight-knit Irish families-the McDonoughs, the Sullivans, the Cosgroves, the Flahertys-emigrated to New York, where they did very well for themselves in a unique trade demanding great skill and courage. The menfolk became "grain trimmers," i.e., longshoremen who, using shovels and wooden scoops, level out grain after it is poured or blown into the holds of ships. It is a difficult trade because the grain raises huge clouds of choking dust, and dangerous because the dust has been known to explode. It is also well paid. On the docks...
...Czars and Communists alike. They were hounded constantly, finally fled to Manchuria's Three Rivers Valley near Harbin in the late 1920s. There they lived peacefully until 1945, farming and hunting tiger and boar. Then the Soviet army marched in to occupy the area, threw 300 of the menfolk into slave labor camps. In 1952 the Chinese Communists, who had taken over, promised the sect a chance to migrate to Paraguay. The Old Believers sold their hunting rifles and farms, only to have the Communist government go back on its promise. But last year Peking finally softened...
...ladies in picture hats-guests of Benefactor Wolf-son-bobbing like exotic flowers in the wilderness of beards and black hats, and they caused a dither of commotion among the ushers when they refused to be seated in isolation at the back of the hall, insisted on accompanying their menfolk...
...aims at showing that the female is more deadly than the male, and on NBC's Frontier, the rustle of petticoats is fast drowning out the creak of chaps. In last week's show, plucky Beverly Garland, though frail, put-upon and pregnant, drove her weak-spirited menfolk and a herd of cattle more than 600 long miles, through drought, ambush and ennui, from parched Texas to verdant Wyoming. Subsequent Frontier programs will tell of Poker Alice (Joan Vohs), the coolest gambler on the plains, and the Long Road to Tucson will relate the saga of seven nuns...