Word: sleighs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beautiful as this. There is a softness, a merriment, a silence, a simple beauty about it that the rigorous, taciturn upcountrymen seldom achieve. This idiom, casually dropped across the counter of the general store when the mountains swelter in midsummer sun, brings to mind the far off ring of sleigh bells, and the white antiguity of hills...
...prisoner in a Finnish jail whence he would be deported to Siberia. Indomitable Mrs. Svinhufvud took in boarders while her husband languished in Siberian exile, visited him every winter by permission of the Tsarist Government-which meant a freezing journey of some 2,000 miles, much of it by sleigh...
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...When his sleigh upset, smashing its tail light, Fred Johnson of Brantford, Ont., drove on through the night, was arrested. Said the stern Canadian judge, fining Sleighrider Johnson $1 for driving without a tail light: "When your light was smashed you should have remained where upset until daylight...
...though he would go mad. He was Stefan Todor, confessed "lover" and sole heir of 46-year-old Frau Kardos who was reputed wealthy. She had refused him any word of affection or consolation before she went to Death. Groaning and raving, he climbed at last into his sleigh, drove off to the mocking tune of jingle bells...