Word: surly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home Catherine had hoped to find strength to start life afresh. Instead, she found a bleak world living on a dry fodder of deathly recollections - little Cousin Bessie (died, aged eight, of a sur feit of ripe peaches); Heir Jack Lewis (broke his neck horseback riding) ; Confederate Soldier Joe (one leg amputated, the other gangrenous). The Negro servants were not much better; old Maria, whose favorite son was serving a life sentence for murder, simply believed that "if people only had the moral courage to quit putting food into their stomachs the Lord would solve all problems by taking them...
This week, just three days after Baruch submitted his report, Jimmy Byrnes dis closed that both jobs had been filled, by Executive order. Ex-Cotton King Will Clayton, 64, of Houston, resigned as Man Friday to Jesse Jones, became Sur plus Property Administrator...
...deep has been the mystery sur rounding U.S. Government politicking in the strategic oil regions of the world that no one could even tell whether a murder had been committed, let alone whodunit...
...Norte y Sur. Through the intricate details of Persons and Places, and by way of them, the vitality of the Spanish-American heritage glows through the supple prose. The 262 pages of the book (another volume is to appear, and war conditions interfered with this one) are packed with accounts of life in Harvard, written with mellow good humor, of the philosophy department, written rather perfunctorily, of the Lampoon, Boston Latin School, and, ceaselessly in each new scene, the effective contrasts of the old world and the new, and the pain that was suffered by the people of sensitivity...
Aircraft Repair and Storage Depots: Severe damage to two of the largest depots-Méaulte and Romilly-sur-Seine; heavy damage to repair shops at Antwerp, Brussels, Le Bourget, Meulan-les-Mureaux, Nantes; considerable damage to the Gnôme-et-Rhône plant at Le Mans; light damage to Paris' Hispano-Suiza plant, destruction to Paris' Caudron Renault shop; Villacoublay was marked "most severe...