Word: patch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disillusioned journalist, one a prudish young parson, one a middle-aged Irish stoker of herculean build. Sadie Patch, the girl, was a fine physical and mental specimen of femininity. At first everything went according to desert-island Hoyle. Civilized decencies, if not amenities, were observed with conscious strictness. As clothes wore out and beards and familiarity grew, the atmosphere changed. Sadie, of course, became the bone of continuous contention. Unalarmed in her woman's wisdom, she knew she had to keep the peace somehow. How she did it none of them knew till the rescue ship came along, took...
...Princess Helen (who is estranged from King Carol and lives in London) traveled to Rumania. At the frontier she was met by the Rumanian Train and brought secretly to a suburban royal villa without entering Bucharest. Possibly Dr. Maniu, always a stanch champion of Princess Helen, will manage to patch things up. When he broke with the King two years ago Citizen Maniu reputedly said: "Sire, you can never be crowned unless the mother of Prince Mihai is crowned as Queen by your side...
...minutes or so through heavy woods and underbrush and then lost them. We looked around a while but couldn't pick up the trail. I told Wise I would go over to the shore to see if the boat was nearby. As I reached a wooded patch near the shore I suddenly found that I was between two lions. I yelled for Wise. He came and shot them. The second one was crouching . . . when Wise shot. It seemed to be excited...
...Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, which at the end of last year had $11,000,000 in cash and cash deposits. Despite the Nickel Plate's situation, its common shares sold last week at $5, indicating most people thought the stock would not be wiped out, that the "Vans" could patch up their pyramid. And announcement of their interest in the Seatrain showed that the Brothers were still aggressively in the railroad business...
...meeting took place last week and Untouchable Dr. Ambdekar as well as high-caste Hindu leaders were apparently moved beyond endurance by the piteous sight of the Mahatma quivering on a cot in the prison yard beneath the shade of a mango tree. One & all they rushed away to patch up with the Raj some sort of settlement to which the Mahatma would agree...