Word: porch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doell mounted the porch steps, rang the bell. Nobody answered. The front shades were drawn. He rapped sharply on the glass door-panels; still no answer...
...Michigan behind some of the biggest sand dunes in the world. Carl Sandburg's place is on top of a dune a mile or so from the Harbert post office. On the land side the house is a triple decker, the top deck open and sunny. The front porch looks over ten miles of beach through the crests of some tall pines. Inside it is the kind of house a good workman likes to have for his family...
...floor called the Lincoln Room came in time to resemble second-hand book stores. In the first two years alone Carl Sandburg went through more than a thousand source books and marked them for copyists, of whom he had two at a time working downstairs in the glassed-in porch. His pretty, white-haired wife, Paula, and three daughters helped with the files. Gutted and exhausted books went to the barn...
Then the curtain went up, and the audience broke into a roar while for three minutes Potter sprawled on a porch and leaned against a pillar, mumbling any spare cusswords he remembered to cover up any regulation dialogue he forgot. After that, Barton took over the part...
...years - a 300-acre farm near Pawling in Dutchess County, New York. GOP-Hopeful Dewey thus became, like his 35-mile-away neighbor, Franklin Roosevelt, a titular constituent of GOP-Hopeful Hamilton Fish. Dewey farm facts: price, $30,300 ($3,000 down); a 175-year-old farmhouse, with front porch suitable for campaign purposes; two tenant houses, 70 head of cattle...