Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Come what might in the election, however, nothing was likely to efface certain Midland memories of Smith-in-action...
Where does a college student live? Where should he cast his vote? The answers, of course, vary with the students. An orphan student might have no other legal domicile than his dormitory. Perhaps any student's dormitory rooms are or may be his voting residence, since at most institutions dormitory space is leased for a whole year and most election laws require only a few months' residence...
Orchards are his hobby. A few years ago he would climb nimbly up many a tree, personally inspecting branches that might need pruning. Even now, at 73, he ministers to favorite trees from the ground, with a long pruning-saw, much resembling a medieval spear. As he prowls, thus accoutred, around his excessively historic Glamis Castle, romantic persons enjoy fancying that the Earl resembles an early owner of his domain, King Macbeth of Scotland (reigned 1040-57), who, as Shakespeare has told, murdered King Duncan in Glamis Castle...
...full glare of blazing publicity. Critics realized that the fuss was none of her making, that presses all over the U. S. were starved at the time for a good human interest story. They were for the most part kind. She had a pleasant voice. She might some day become an artist. And for three years they waited...
...disease himself, infectious to others. The New York City health department captured him and segregated him on a pest island in East River. He may be kept there for life because he broke his promise to the health department never to work around food which other people might eat. A woman, "Typhoid" Mary Mallon, is also there for life, for like cause...