Word: porch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WOMEN ON THE PORCH-Caroline Gordon-Scrlbners...
...decaying Tennessee mansion, three women brooded in their porch chairs. Crazy Grandma Lewis mumbled to an imaginary visitor that her father was away "in the service of the Confederacy." Spinster Aunt Willy dreamed about her chestnut stallion-the only creature she could bring herself to love. Cousin Daphne (her bridegroom had abandoned her on their wedding night when he found she had no money) toyed with the more poisonous specimens of her beloved collection of rare mushrooms. Suddenly the rank growth that ringed the old house parted and Granddaughter Catherine Lewis Chapman stumbled onto the porch. Her husband had been...
Other days he went driving through the plantation's pines and cypresses, looking at jonquils and dogwoods in full bloom. Sometimes he "just sat" on the white-columned front porch of Hobcaw, a stately 21-room house built by Baruch twelve years ago on the 226-year-old plantation...
...Smith's father, a Honolulu policeman, is Irish-Hawaiian; his mother is English-Hawaiian. Bill did not start swimming in earnest until he was ten, when typhoid fever left him unable to walk. A coming Hawaiian swimming star, he saw the bombing of Pearl Harbor from his home porch, seven miles from the base...
Inferno. In Kansas City, Mo., Dr. S. S. Hill heard strange noises under the front porch of his new house, called firemen to investigate. From a 20-ft. dry cistern were lifted (all alive) a chow, a Boston bulldog, a white Angora...