Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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House spiders, whose implacable enemy is the housewife, make thick, haphazard webs which Author Crompton regards as a mess. This spider spins only at night, but works indefatigably, and is willing to mend and patch. The only mouse ever recorded as caught and killed by a spider was the victim of a house spider. In Britain, the biggest house spider has a body nearly an inch long, and, counting the legs, is four inches across. This monster is called "the cardinal," because once, at Hampton Court, one scared the 16th Century's Cardinal Wolsey almost to death...
...pard's murder. Ultimately it thrusts him into the arms of the queen's innocent niece ("blue eyes set wide apart, dark with excitement, red lips, sweet and tragic, a small bare head covered with golden curls"). Before Line and bride can turn "to face the dark patch against the distant hills which marked the valley that one day would be their home," straight-shootin' Line calls the bluff of just about every shifty-eyed little skunk in South Pass...
...didn't bother to take out a city permit (which would have called for inspection of the job) or to bring timber to shore up his shaft. He just ripped up a patch of concrete flooring near the garage's main support pillar and began to dig. At 18 feet, as he was trying to dislodge a big rock, a cave-in buried him up to the waist in loose sand and gravel. When he tried to wriggle out he discovered that he was trapped; his right leg was doubled beneath him and pinned immovably by the boulder...
...result of this patch-quilt cushion for old age is that some workers are not covered at all, while some will enjoy as many as three or four pensions. The big reason a worker has to lean on other plans in addition to Social Security is that after 15 years, Social Security benefits are still too small to give security...
...patch-eyed Miss Cornell plays mistress to Spain's Phillip II and to two of his court members. Jealousy moves the king to imprison his ex-mistress and her third lover; but a third act scene, which is the play's most interesting, reunites the two lovers. By this time, they are much older: he is senescent and maimed; she is dying. The few minutes they spend together before he escapes from the country are touching...