Word: mont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lights of Butte, Mont., when seen from the Continental Divide, have a strange, haunting beauty. But in the daytime Butte is anything but beautiful to look at-"by dark a diamond set in jet, but by day ... an uncorseted wench dissipated from the night before." Last week Butte (pop. 37,000) had a book all to itself. The book (Copper Camp; Hastings House; $2.75) is the latest of the series compiled by the late Federal Writers' Project...
...Bullitt, elegant ex-Ambassador to France, now candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, got into trouble with the city's tax receiver about the city's tax on wages. The dapper diplomat was charged with not filing his returns for 1940, '41 and '42 until last mont, when he reported his three years' wages as 33,535.14 and paid a tax of $108.94. The tax man had wanted to hear more about the ambassadorial expenses for which Bullitt had claimed deductions, but had been reminded that all the embassy records were destroyed when the Germans entered...
Roll Out the Barrel. Near Helena, Mont., Carl Case's truck, full of beer, stalled on a mountain grade, rolled back ward, right into a picnic, overturned and tossed out Oase, who stayed...
...located Niobe in the 42nd Street Library copying Munkacsy's painting of Milton in his blindness dictating to his daughters. She got away. Next time Niobe turned up was at memorial cervices for Bloodgood H. Cutter, "the Long Island Farmer Poet." As Mrs. Bertha K. Hollings of Butte, Mont., she said a few words in honor of Cutter's memory, ran away when Jim chased her. Soon afterward she emerged as "Miss Sanderson," evangelist for the Society for the Preservation of Happiness...
Life in Montana. In Broadus, Mont., local news went on, war or no war: three residents killed three rattlesnakes, a cow allowed a cat to fall asleep on her back, another cow gave birth to a three-legged calf...