Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playtime. In Louisville, Norma and Charlotte Eppihimer broke a neighbor's window, entered, smashed two sets of china, emptied the refrigerator on the kitchen floor, basted the mess with mustard, scattered the contents of some bedroom dressers, built a fire on the livingroom floor, knifed a chicken, let the mule out of the pasture, and painted the family cat & dog green...
...Hendricks left the Frost cottage, with the poet's promise to lecture at the new college, the aurora borealis was flashing across the skies; Hendricks took it as a good omen. At midnight he reached the home of another summertime neighbor and friend, Dorothy Thompson. She liked the idea, too, and agreed to help. So did Author Dorothy Canfleld Fisher, Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Pianist Rudolf Serkin...
...Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets" (Matthew...
Snyder had come down hard on some Brazilian failings-the country's hesitancy about immigration, its inordinate fear of burdening itself with taxation, failure to assume responsibility in the hope that some neighbor would do all the work and take all the risks. But only the Communists screamed. "Yankee imperialism," they cried. Snyder had come "to make an inventory of our riches," to "subject our country to Wall Street." Nobody paid much attention. So far as most Brazilians could see, U.S. capital was no longer a one-way gouge; it worked for Brazil as well as the investors...
...Turner up & down the Reach. Walter Greaves, the boatman's son, painted heraldic devices on his father's boats and, as he grew up, longed for broader canvases. One day in the 1860s, when Walter was in his late teens, he got to know a Chelsea neighbor, an eccentric young painter from Massachusetts: James Abbott McNeill Whistler...