Word: pursuitence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lecky, pursued by some imminent horror, went to ground in the basement of the department store. Gradually, as he heard no sounds of pursuit, he got up enough courage to seek a better hiding place. His first weapons of defense were a kitchen knife, a fire-axe. Literate but not handy, he found his way to the sporting-goods department, got a supply of guns but had to read the instruction book before he could load one. His first shelter he contrived out of a platform of doors placed over an open compartment. Later he fortified a lavatory, provisioned...
...damsel and box suitor, when the winter winds blew off simply popped into bed, fully clothed lowered a small wooden fence between them and pulled the covers high ground their necks. This was called "bunding" and it is this quaint practice that provides the central theme for "The Pursuit of Happiness," playing at the Metropolitan theatre this week...
...brother, Jean Camous, became a precocious adept. At ten he had embarked on his career, soon found there was more to it than gravy. In England he nearly starved, but he learned the language and what little there was to know about English cookery. His peregrinations over Europe in pursuit of his muse were interrupted by military service, but even in the army his talents came to the fore, got him the pleasant billet of cook to a general. A civilian again, he married, took his bride to the U. S. to set up for himself. In Lynbrook, Long Island...
Yesterday the reporters were able to accept this as merely an inevitable setback in the pursuit of news. After all, Casey's sudden coldness was news in itself. It was just a case of "Why dost thou act so strange, my Edward, and I hope to Heaven that you quit fooling by tomorrow...
...back into Iowa, and down to Missouri. Near Mexico, Mo., a salesman reported that he had been forced at gun's point to push a stalled car in which he was sure sat Floyd. A few miles south 25 peace officers beat their way through a cornfield in pursuit, found nothing but husks. Near Moberly, Mo., a woman let into her farmhouse three men who wanted soap and water, told her one of them had cut his finger. After asking her if she had any weapons to fit .32 or .38 calibre cartridges, they left. An hour later...