Word: mowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life with the Berigans. In Omaha, when the F. A. Berigans' dog, Bozo, got his foot and tail caught in a hay mower, Frank Berigan jumped over a fence to help him, cut himself on one knee, hit himself in the eye with the other; sister Pat ran out of the house, slipped, sprained her wrist; Mrs. Berigan, startled as she was canning, sprained her finger; and Champ, another Berigan dog, jumped over the barn door and broke his foot...
...small, hand-steered garden tractor, behind which the operator walks, lawn-mower-style, for intensive cultivation...
While the proprietors of the local apothecary shops specializing in liquid prescriptions tear their hair, the sandwich shop men rub their hands in delight, for many is the edible carried into Mower, Lionel, and Strauss, to stave off that gnawing hunger that comes...
...widower, he now spends most of his time at his New Fairfield, Conn, house near Candlewood Lake. Honored by degrees from Yale, Purdue and Harvard, he plans another lectern Bible, is finishing up odds & ends of jobs started years ago. His biggest immediate problem: to get his power lawn mower working so that he can run it over his Connecticut acre of grass...
...menfolks but it didn't put any goofy ideas in their heads. Just because it's been proved that our intelligence is equal to men's doesn't mean that it lies in the same direction, any more than you'd expect a lawn mower and a sewing machine to do the same work simply because they both happen to be good machines...