Word: residente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One Adams House resident who was enrolled in Intermediate French Complained that his exam had been unusually tough. Later he discovered having taken the final in French A, a beginners' course.
Fletcher Taft, resident manager of the community, admitted that dog owners had been lax in their observance of the rules, but said he had not considered mass extermination as a solution.
One A entry resident voiced an unusual inconvenience yesterday. "I don't mind the drilling and sawing in the early morning. I don't mind the hammering. The trouble is that the workmen tell all their jokes in Italian, and I don't understand Italian."
A mild, soft-spoken man with a wisp of a smile poking out from beneath his usually serious manner, Mr. McNiff manifests his seldom-called-on Gaelic wrath when he sees the handiwork of the margin marker or the page puller. He is quick to point out that such abuses...
When Pancho Villa's raiders crossed the border in 1916, the big house prepared for a siege. The Widow King called in all hands one anxious night, gave them guns and posted them at strategic spots. Then she calmly went to bed. The raiders did not come; instead, they...