Word: mering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Posse. In Roswell, N. Mex., Ranch-woman Mrs. C. A. Marley strapped on her .38, tracked down and caught the mere male who had stolen her favorite horse, delivered the offender, hog-tied, to the sheriff...
...Gorgeous. Once the National Committee was set up, Mom had big ideas. She wanted to build a war widows' home for which she had had an elaborate plan made (see cut). The home, Mom figured, would cost a mere $12 million. Who would run it? Mom knew just the man-a waiter-captain she had met. Said Mom: "He's gorgeous...
That meant considerable vigilance, for the Ramapos lie a mere 30 miles northwest of Manhattan. On clear days, from the top of neighboring Jackie Jones Mountain, Gil Pitt could see the skyscrapers: Half Moon itself was only 55 minutes from Broadway...
After the second drink of bourbon, a Southerner is apt to start talking about those awful freight rates. The subject is no joke in the South. For Southerners claim, and with rebel yells, that discriminatory freight rates have stunted their economic growth and made them mere colonials of the imperial East...
...Obviously the building is on fire. But no. The price board on the west wall is the cause of all the commotion. May wheat has just jumped from $2.69 to $2.69¾ a bushel. Presently the noise dies to mere bedlam...