Word: swayse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Git de oddeh truck," he suggests. The other truck is hailed and it speeds into position, driven by a weazened little man who cannot conceal his delight at being one of the puller-downers. An extension of the cable is tied to his bumper and presently the two Macks, looking...
An egoist like his fellow reporter-biographers, Mr. Miller likes to go on solitary two-day hikes "as a useful mental astringent," still has to give himself a fight-talk to ward off journalistic stage fright before interviewing famed figures. Less blatant in his self-revelations than Negley Farson, he...
Foursquare. In London every Easter Monday posters in front of the Albert Hall announce Easter services of the Elim Foursquare Revivalists* led by a sensitive-mouthed, curly-haired Welshman named George Jeffreys. Whipped up to hot fervor by the evangelical baritone of George Jeffreys, the audience prays, sways, sings, shouts...
Most notable personal milestone in the one-generation industry occurred when one of its pioneers chose to retire into the chairmanship of the company bearing his name. He was Charles Williams Nash, 68, who once owned 20 sheep and little else, whose fortune grew with the Industry until it was...
This is the weather which the Vagabond, like Mr. Hardy and his cookoo, prefers. For the autumn rain has been upon us, and left the chill of autumn in the air. Summer is alive in his mind but the Vagabond turns a speculative eye on the orchards where the russet...