Word: patch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) Texas last week rubbed out the one Republican patch on its huge and other wise Democratic Congressional map. By so doing it definitely handed control of the 72nd House of Representatives which meets this week for the first time, over to Democracy by a molecular majority. On that majority a stocky little Texan with fiery blue eyes and stubbly white hair pre pared to mount the rostrum to the stiff high-backed chair which holds the Speaker of the House and a power second only to that of the President. His name was John Nance Garner...
French babies are not brought by a stork; they are delivered by a rabbit in a cabbage patch. But in Alsace, where German folklore survives, the stork is still the solemn patron of the childbed. France, whose declining birth rate is a national problem, viewed with alarm a last week report on stork nests in Alsace: In 1927, there were 270; in 1928, only 150 were occupied; this year, only 53 in all Alsace...
...leave town. Lavinia, who finds out about the affair, loathes her mother a little bit more, threatens to tell her father about it unless Christine dismisses Brant. Out of this situation arises the first of Mourning Becomes Electra's four deaths. Tired of war, sick, wishing to patch it up with his wife, Ezra returns. It is hard for him to forget four years of carnage. "That's always been the Mannon's way of thinking," says he. "They went to the white meeting house on Sabbaths and meditated on death. Life was a dying. Being born...
...died - a great rock that looks like an Egyptian tomb, with a hole in it that looks like a door. They confess they love each other, and Matthias sees them. When Matthias accuses her, Natalie is honest with him, tells him she has always loved Timberlake. They try to patch things up; Timberlake goes away. One day after a quarrel Natalie is missing. Matthias finds her body down in the woods, where Garth died. Months later, when Timberlake, sick and prematurely old appears again, Matthias is glad to see him, hopes he will stay for good. But one day Timberlake...
Last week in Philadelphia U. S. Customs officials discovered a ten-acre patch of marijuana. Marketed in cigarets it would have yielded a $125,000 profit.* Though it was apparently growing wild, the agents were sure so much marijuana had not sprung up by chance. Carefully guarding the secret of its location, they hurried to the Board of Health, had the marijuana patch declared a menace to public health and ordered burned with great public stench...