Word: pining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the entire U. S. defense fleet which lay so becalmed that they had to have launches tow them into port. Meanwhile, Sir Thomas Lipton continued to live quietly on his yacht Erin, going ashore seldom, once to motor around Ocean Drive with Mayor Sullivan of Newport. Captain Ben Pine, owner of the fishing schooner Gertrude L. Thebaud, came to see him and Sir Thomas said he would put up a cup for the Gloucester fishing sloop races...
...Hatfield-McCoy feuds of the Pine Mountains of Kentucky 50 years ago, son of famed Anderson (''Devil Anse") Hatfield (died 1921, past 80), cousin of West Virginia's Senator Henry Drury Hatfield; of a brain ailment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He was said to have been fired at 300 times, hit once...
...child, entered the Democratic party via Populism and Texas, was Oklahoma's first Senator (1907-21). Defeated because of his anti-War position, he continued to live in Washington, practiced law there, lobbied a little. In the November election he will be opposed by Republican Senator William Bliss Pine who was politically handicapped this year when an enormous gusher came in on his Oklahoma land, made him suddenly rich. Nominee Murray, who boasts of drinking his coffee from the saucer, rarely bathes, and who said he would rent the executive mansion and live in the garage, was immediately threatened...
Republican Senator William Bliss Pine was renominated by a clear majority. Ira A. Hill, State Senator, apparently won the Republican nomination for Governor over all comers...
...Rivers, and added him to his camp crew as chief bookkeeper, surveyor, inventor, doctor, and general efficiency expert. And Johnny Inkslinger was very glad to meet Paul Bunyan, too, despite that hero's carelessness in mistaking the great scribe's supply of fresh-sharpened pencils for a pine forest and having them all chopped down. One of the very first reforms that Johnny Inkslinger proposed in Old Paul's camp economy was to diminish the loggers' rations and build some ships and send the surplus produce from Old Paul's great supply farms to European...