Word: patch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bickle, British Columbia, one Dave Irons was walking up a trail with a bag of salt. Every week he came to this lonely patch of hill-furze and spikeberry, the loneliest section of his range, to salt his cows; once he had seen a bear here, and looking at the place where the black beast had lumbered off he saw, as if conjured up by his memory, a bear come out of the woods and make for him. He ran. The bear followed. The cows scattered, uttering mild cries. At the other end of the field stood a pair...
...long spiky bristle of the mandarin, was worried. When he heard how the naked chin of Peter gleamed blue and shameless in his new palace, Petersburg, upon the Neva, he sent him a fine rug as one who would say: In mystery the twig is bent, and a patch of hair divides one nation from another. Let peace be between us, my brother, although your shears are impudent...
Lovey Mary (Bessie Love). An orphanage is as inevitably appealing as a cowboy love story or a midnight bathing orgy. The movies do them all. The escape from the orphanage by the recalcitrant, but terribly cute inmate, is always good. Later she settles in the Cabbage Patch, where everybody is poor but picturesque. Of its type Lovey Mary will...
Proceeded methodically to trim and patch the sadly mangled and inadequate tax bill sent to it by the Chamber. (TIME, March...
Valisan of Vladeska, Russian wolfhound, sheer white except for a black patch over his eye. He stalked negligently around the ring, content to give the rabble the privilege of seeing, for once, an aristocrat in ermine. J. Allen Dunn, novelist, judged this class, adeptly weeding out all those dogs which looked too much like the trademark of Publisher Alfred Knopf...