Word: mop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...begin to understand until the evening that some Buckinghamshire beech-leaves in a Moscow Road flower-shop smelled like the rustling wood to whose edge she had often come in her autumn imagination. She went at once to live alone at Great Mop in the Chilterns. There, after some months that were not without weirdness, a starved kitten scratched her hand and her own blood sealed her knowledge that she was a witch...
...Leak, her Great Mop landlady, recognized Lolly's awakening and took her as a matter of course to the very next Witches' Sabbath. It was in a hedged field about midnight, and very vivacious. But village witches and warlocks are a rustic, hysterical lot. They wearied Lolly, before long, and angered her a little. When Satan appeared in a guise suitable to their company, she rebuffed his advances...
Near Milwaukee, in an insane asylum, John Kuehn, 57, "a man of mystery," seized a heavy mop. One Albert Joe did likewise. They duelled. John Kuehn was slain. Albert Joe, the victor, was subdued by guards...
...Mop Fight...
...Missouri Pacific years ago was a "Gould road," and a link in the ambitious transcontinental railway system from the Atlantic to the Pacific which both Jay and George Gould projected. When, after 1907, this plan collapsed, "Mop" fell upon some lean years. Now the great southwestern merger, which it heads, promises to realize partially, yet in fact, the dreams which the Goulds had of its future...