Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No one on Dallas' Swiss Avenue wanted to seem unappreciative or lacking in real Yuletide spirit, but, the neighbors pleaded, the plain fact was that the thing had become a nuisance.
People came by the hundreds and then by the thousands. They came from as far away as New Orleans and Oklahoma City, over a million of them. They trampled Homer's grass. They tied up traffic for 20 blocks. Old people came in wheelchairs and one man in an...
But this year the neighbors got riled. What with the traffic and the music, they couldn't talk, think, sleep, or get in & out of their own driveways. "I am sorry to say it," said one, "but I don't believe I want to hear Silent Night ever...
All Is Bright. Homer would not be moved. "This year I'm going to make it ten times bigger than ever before," he announced defiantly. "I'm going to add angels in fluorescent lights." There would also be 13 more sheep, another dog and shepherd and 1,500...
"The city doesn't stop football games, do they, just because of the crowds and the noise?" cried Homer. "The people that come to see our scene just stand there quiet and reverent and they don't drink or shout." The city gave up. Said Mayor Wallace Savage...