Word: pilgrimate
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...wife, four bright-eyed children and $26,000 worth of stock in the bank. But rare is the man who has attained that state on a salary of only $43 a week. One such is kindly-faced, near-sighted Gus Anderson, who charges batteries for the electric trucks of Pilgrim Laundry, Inc. of Brooklyn, N. Y. Gus began his work 25 years ago for $25 a week and today, in his overalls and heavy shoes, he looks as though he didn't have a spare dime. But he is typical of Pilgrim's 550 employes, 535 of whom...
...leading events from creation to the current year (1808). Next followed a long heroic poem, part of which celebrated the career of his father, Zachary, famed abolitionist and founder of the Bible Society (forerunner of the Gideon Society). At twelve, with little effort, he memorized Paradise Lost and Pilgrim's Progress...
...Senator has a seat at stake, no important Representative is likely to be liquidated and the most engaging characters on the political stage are two young Boston blue bloods. Robert F. Bradford, now 35, is the son of the late famed Surgeon Edward Hickling Bradford in direct descent from Pilgrim Father William Bradford. Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, 31, is a son of the famed liberal Unitarian minister, Samuel Eliot, and grandson of the late, even more famed Harvard President Charles W. Eliot...
...Land of Song or a Land of Slugs with a trend to become a Land of Shylocks. Let Song save it . . .") ; when, making his devout way up St. Patrick's mountain, he forgets St. Patrick to muse on the beauty of the human foot (of the barefoot girl pilgrim in front...
...Pilgrim Fathers first settled the northeast corner of what is now the United States. Spaniards were first in the southeastern and southwestern corners. But the Northwest Corner, as everyone knows, was first occupied by Paul Bunyan, the great logger. He went there to get milk of the Western whale to cure the mysterious illness of Babe, his blue ox. Puget Sound is the grave he dug for Babe when he thought the ox would die, and Washington's Cascade Mountains are the dirt Paul and his loggers heaved up in their digging...