Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith, a retired grocer. Mr. Smith caused the Negro porter at the depot some concern. He seemed to have had too much to drink. His luggage included a smallbore rifle and cartridges. (It later developed that he was expected to compete in a shoot at Chicago's North Shore Gun Club.) And he was extraordinarily fussy about taking a brown-paper parcel into the cabin with him. The porter decided Mr. Smith's behavior was not ominous enough to warrant reporting. He slammed the cabin door shut and in a moment No. 23 roared away-a big twin...
...dialog, is told in hillbilly tongue; the cumulative effect is to make The Woods Colt a prose folksong. Just before the shot that ends his story Clint takes a last look at the woods where his parents got him: "They're mighty purty right this minute, they shore are. The leaves is all red an' yaller, an' they're a-movin' gentle-like, back an' forth, back an' forth, jest enough to let you know they're there. This is the fall o' the year, with the air so dang full...
...Robert Clarkson Clothier hurried off on a sorry errand. At Lake Placid, N. Y. had disappeared Mrs. Mabel Smith Douglass, 56, who retired as dean of New Jersey College for Women last spring because of ill health. She had apparently been rowing. Her capsized boat was found in shore. Grapplers and a diver hunted for the body. Dr. Clothier joined in the hunt, issued statements, then hurried back to Rutgers...
Pharos, they call it, on the Egyptian shore...
...races he attended a party at the South Bend, Ind. home of Vincent Bendix (automobile and airplane parts). Another guest, Charles T. Otto, offered to fly him and a girl friend back across Lake Michigan's tip to Chicago in an autogiro. The 'giro never reached shore...