Word: tearin
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...without lighting it." Lon Whaley, who has two of the natural gas burn-offs lighting up his front yard like the county fairgrounds, has difficulty getting to sleep at night. And Noah Blevins worries about the landscape: "It 'bout made me sick to see them drillin' and tearin' up what I spent all my life buildin...
...about a lost dog ("Queen's a part of me, kind of wildlike and vicious to everyone but me"), and spun yarns to a visitor about great hunts of the past: "The closest call I've ever knowed, I shot a bear at close range that was tearin' at the dogs. The bear he jumped up and leaped right at me. I shot him in the air and jumped sideways, fallin' full length on wet leaves. The bear flopped down just exactly where I was at before I leaped aside. Shot clean through the head...
Conservative Bosses. Is it by accident or design that many of the men bossing the home front now are Southerners, of semi-conservative stripe, while no rarin', tearin' New Dealer has a top job? Where are all the Brain-Trusters now? These were the questions that made many a heretofore 100% Roosevelt-man wince last week. Because, after those rhetorical questions had been asked, there was only one more to ask: Is Franklin Roosevelt still...
...Miss Easter, if you don't stop roarin' an' bawlin' an' tearin' on the red raw minute yell be gettin' tally-whack an' tandam where ye'll not like it." So admonished by her nurse, little Easter, the story's heroine, manages to mind her P's & Q's for a minute, but not for more. There are her cousins Evelyn and Basil to get into mischief with, and Patsy the scullery boy. Patsy breeds ferrets in an overstuffed armchair, knows the countryside and its sports like...