Word: milkmaid
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...full of special meaning, and this made everything holy. The instinct of Moses to take off his shoes when he saw the burning bush was very similar to my feelings. I saw many burning bushes in Cookham." For Spencer, who patterned the Virgin May after his counsin, a milkmaid, it seems perfectly natural that angels in their visitations should call on Sarah Tubb, whom Spencer remembers vividly when "she knelt right down in the street at the time there was a thing called Halley's comet." On the day of the Resurrection, Spencer paints the whole Cookham churchyard opening...
Seven years and 70 letters passed. Breda, a country milkmaid in the County Kerry village of Lispole, a speck on the map not far from Tralee, wrote of raising a greyhound, of playing a few parts on the stage at Killarney, of hoping some day to teach Frank the hornpipe. Frank, who was now an arc welder, wrote that he had sold his 1941 automobile, cashed in his war bonds and was setting aside $80 a month until he had enough for an airplane trip to County Kerry...
...future with assurance (though we may look to it with dread). But we can point to the trend. In general it is away from the neo-breezeblown toward the neo-neat. The pigtail of yesteryear is not yet gone but is is fading fast. No longer does the milkmaid arrange her silken tresses into the wonted braids. Her sister in the big city is likewise gripped by the fever of change. On all sides the idols of the past are falling--even the neo-underbrush, once so secure, is threatened. No one knows what the future may hold...
...night of January 14, the Russian had demonstrated that he was little more than a foreign cad-he admitted that he was married. He also tried to kiss her, for the first time. Judy had reacted like a milkmaid being pinched by a dry-goods drummer; she had wept and whacked him with a folded newspaper. Nevertheless, on the weekend of her arrest, she came back to New York "to get this thing settled...
...tried hard to laugh about the shortcomings of their new Five-Year Plan and the purges that came in its wake. The humorous weekly, Crocodile, ran a cover cartoon of a man filling milk cans at a water pump. Each can bore the legend "100% fulfilled." The caption: "Chief milkmaid, or how Tovarish Figure-Chaser fulfills the plan." To make the picture still funnier, P. V. Smirnov, the head of Russia's meat and milk production, was promptly fired. But the comedy was still strictly official. For in Russia last week a full-fledged purge, affecting all departments...