Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nervous Collapse. In Christchurch, New Zealand, a river footbridge maintained by two separate municipal authorities was marked on a Monday for demolition, renovated on Tuesday by a repair gang, demolished as scheduled on Wednesday, visited on Thursday by another gang sent to paint...
Birth Pangs. In Hartford, Conn., D. A. McGann sent $5 to the police for a parking ticket with an explanatory note: "It was a girl. Delivery costs $5 more than anticipated," got an answer: "Congratulations, but no refund...
Stage-Struclc. In Broken Bow, Neb., while participating in an Old West celebration, Banker Thomas T. Varney Jr. fired blanks enthusiastically at fleeing make-believe robbers, discovered too late that the shells were loaded with birdshot, sent one of his victims a new hat, the other an air pillow...
...been singing, composing and collecting folk material all his life ("I sometimes feel like a bunch of musical nerves without any steerage"), he did not try to go commercial until two years ago, when a local music-store owner heard him sing The Battle of New Orleans and sent him to a folk-song-conscious music publisher in Nashville, Tenn. The song took off in half a dozen different records, which stood to earn Jimmie more than $100,000, and abruptly ended his teaching career...
...Jane (Dot LP). Singer Jane Harvey, a girl who can put a promise in a pronoun, swings her way through some convincingly heart-frayed reveries on the loving game-Misty, Everything But You, Lover in the House. In more antic mood, she belts the bromides out of Sent for You Yesterday and Witchcraft...