Word: townsfolk
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...yachting cruise, Infantas Beatriz and Maria Christina, daughters of one-time King Alfonso XIII of Spain, landed at the little Irish village of Portaferry. Astonished townsfolk whispered to each other, giggled, pointed to the Infantas' flannel yachting trousers. Infanta Beatriz blushed, tried to hide behind her fiance, Don Alvaro Antonio D'Orleans...
...they had met the day before, settle themselves for after-dinner card games. Old ball players play black jack, hearts, pinochle; younger ones play contract bridge. In the morning, they all play golf. In the afternoon, scrutinized by a few urchins too young to caddy and a few townsfolk too old to pitch horseshoes, they hit fungoes, chase flies, trap grounders, play pepper games (players stand in a small circle, toss baseballs quickly back and forth). After two or three weeks of this, exhibition games start and the teams move north with...
...Isolde, Eva and Helferich Siegfried Richard. The last, best known as Siegfried, lives at Bayreuth with his mother, his English wife and three children. He rarely mixes with the townsfolk, is not popular with them. (Stokes...
...secured a room at the hotel, fixed a peculiar lock on the door, said in a German accent, "Just call me Fred Brown." On finding the landlord snooping in his room, Fred Brown removed his belongings, moved to a large tank near the railroad. Annoyed by curious townsfolk, Fred Brown had the ends of his tank sliced off for doors, hoisted the tank into Tom Green's tree, put a strip of tin around the bottom of the tree so no one could climb up quietly. Below his tree, he put a chicken yard; grew vegetables nearby. Annoyed...
...John Davison Rockefeller said his appreciation with flowers instead of dimes. The person thus honored was 22-year-old Pianist Helen Pugh who pleased him so greatly that he attended two of her concerts, at the second sat near the front to watch her hands. In Asheville, N. C., townsfolk read proudly of the distinction shown Pianist Pugh. Since the age of five she has been Asheville's pet prodigy...