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...Help Wanted. In Kansas City, a farmhand was advertised for. Said the sarcastic (and successful) ad: "No work to do; must be able to sit in rocking chair on cool, south porch and come to meals unassisted...
Summer's onset trapped many a U.S. vacationist flat on his own front porch. The plain citizen was marooned at home, with a well-stuffed wallet. He had plenty of easy-come money to be easygoing with, and not a thrilling thing to spend...
With the Times. By 1921 her husband was making $10,000 a year. The Vanderlips were neighbors; the children went to the Vanderlips' progressive school. From the porch of the house in Scarborough Louise "could look off across the Hudson deep into orange hills." Honeysuckle smothered the rickety porch railing. There were white birches in the yard, a ginkgo tree by the windows. But misfortune followed so relentlessly it might have been planned. Once the Japanese butler at the Vanderlips' swimming pool asked her: "Why your little boy, he lie at bottom of pool so long for?" Rodney...
...golf at the nearby Washing ton Golf and Country Club, a course which would test a mountain goat. (If his tall, athletic wife Lillian had gone along, she would have trounced him. She shoots in the low 80s.) At dinner there was a cake, which they ate on the porch (see cut) surrounded by Sunday newspapers...
...full payment that William Clatterbuck dealt out was five murders. In his first moment of rage he clubbed Morris Love, 58, to death with a croquet mallet, lying handy on the old front porch. When son James Love, 21, ran out of the house with a rifle, Clatterbuck disarmed him, shot him in the head, bashed his head with the gunstock for good measure. Then he walked into the kitchen and shot Mrs. Love through the heart, went on out to the barn. There he shot and clubbed the hired man and his wife, left them dead...