Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats were sure that there was a conspiracy among the Republicans to badger the Democratic leadership at every turn. When Texas' Tom Connally mildly urged his colleagues to be as brief as possible, Republicans burst into a solid hour of angry recriminations...
...Died. Tom Creighton, 75, co-discoverer of the fabulously rich Canadian Flin Flon mine; after long illness; in Flin Flon, Man. Creighton (and five others) stumbled on the Manitoba lode in 1915, named it after a fictional explorer in a British pulp-magazine thriller. The partners sold out (Creighton got $100,000) and the new owners began digging in 1925, spent $27 million before Flin Flon started paying off ($250 million worth) in gold, copper, silver and zinc...
...Tom Wilcher was one of those choice eccentrics who, if English novelists are to be believed, still wander about the English countryside. He was a tough-minded conservative. He believed in God. He despised what seemed to him the shilly-shallowness of the between-wars younger generation and stoutly affirmed that the days of his youth, well before World War I, were the best a man could be born...
When his niece Ann, a painfully plain woman doctor, bundled him off to the family's abandoned country house, old Tom feared that it was not so much out of affection for him as out of an interest in how he'd leave his money. But he settled down to enjoy the countryside he had known as a young fellow, and to watch with a critical eye the love affair and marriage of Ann and his nephew Robert...
This affair, which opens the two-month season a bare week from Saturday, is looked upon with some trepidation by Tom Bolles, the proverbially conservative coach...