Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Housewife Peggy Nelson stared moodily at the mosquitoes swarming up out of the stagnant pond near her home in the little lumber town of Snoqualmie, Wash, and came to a decision: either she or the wretched puddle must...
Once Peggy Nelson had set the ball rolling, bureau consultants helped Snoqualmie's townspeople organize 18 study committees with memberships ranging from bankers to lumberjacks. Each group diagnosed a Snoqualmie ailment. When one of the innumerable "buzz sessions" established that Peggy's pond and the town's irksome high-water level rose and fell together, an improvement district was organized, and a $12,000 drainage ditch eliminated both health hazards. As the study committees pinpointed other problems, action groups took over. The littered railroad right of way through town was cleared of underbrush; downtown business houses were...
Wittily, the publishers have decorated the book jacket of this literary curiosity with the novelist's figure in its more recent frame-sitting before his goldfish pond at Chartwell, with his back firmly turned. The frontispiece shows the face of a younger, less imposing man, who had just become a Member of Parliament in the year (1900) in which his first and only novel, a highly romantic work of historical fiction, was first issued in book form...
...Hall children had a robust country upbringing. In the winters there was coasting on the slope of the big hill where their house stood, and skating on the pond at the bottom. On summer days the family often picnicked on the beach, where father Hall had built a brick oven for feasts of winkles and horseshoe crabs. There were few luxuries, and the Hall boys chored around the neighborhood for spending money, but it was a happy, close-knit life. His mother taught Len how to handle a gun (he is still a skilled trap-shooter), and tutored...
Rusticated for trying to hurl a don into a pond, 22-year-old President Frederic Carl Granville Bradley of the Claret Club of Trinity College, Oxford explained to the A.P. the steps that led up to the fateful incident: 1) "We put on our club dress-the blue dinner jacket with the red facing and white tie; 2) we drank Merienda, an excellent, medium-dry sherry. Then we adjourned to the hall to take Chablis with the oysters; 3) this was followed by a clear soup. With the next dish, turbot-that's a fish-cutlets-we took...