Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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NEIL E. WARREN ex-Lieutenant, U.S.N.R. Pleasant Ridge, Mich...
...Utah's state prison, slight, bearded, ageless (according to him) Hiram Bebee, sentenced to be shot for the murder of a Mt. Pleasant town marshal, took a highly philosophical view of the news that he had been granted a new trial. Said he: "Physical death is unimportant to me. I have lived many times before and will live many times in the future." The Bebee formula for indefinite life: "proper eating and thinking...
...feature in the otherwise undistinguished London Evening News, which has the world's largest evening newspaper circulation. Other London papers have tried to ape his column, but usually give up for lack of a Jones to write it. But Jimmy, who is 44, regards it as just a pleasant routine chore, and to the annoy ance of his wife, a onetime reporter, has no higher ambition...
During his 50-odd years of farming in Iowa's Warren County, squinty-eyed old Ed Russell had received many a pastoral call. But never had he seen a Methodist parson like pretty, plump Bobby-Soxer Ruth Greenwood. Last week, Bible in hand, she came from Pleasant Hill Church ready to chat with Ed, read some Scripture, and pray...
...glad to see her. He reminisced about the good old days at Pleasant Hill, when a Sunday congregation numbered as much as 115 instead of the present dozen or so. "Out in the country," said Ed, "they are going to take our churches away from us. The younger generation is moving away from these farms. Things is different from when my father used to put all us kids in the back end of a wagon and away we'd go a-bellering...