Word: trail
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...born (1860) in a city-bleak South Shields, in Britain, the twelfth child of a family of 14 children. The trail (he seldom used the words "road" or "path") that led him to the woods was long and hard. It led him first to Canada, where his study of nature was hampered by frontier chores, poverty, parental obstruction and poor health. Audubon's bird paintings inspired his drawing...
Raiding a purse snatcher's hideout, Paris police were startled to find a signed Utrillo hanging on the wall. That started them on the trail of what may be the biggest ring of art forgers in recent years. Last week Paris cops nabbed the artist who forged the Utrillos. She was one Mme. Juliette Claude La Tour-"Zizi" to her Montmartre friends...
Died. Ernest Thompson Seton, 86, British-born, Canada-reared naturalist-artist-author (Wild Animals I Have Known, Trail of the Sandhill Stag, etc.), father of Authoress Anya Seton (Dragon-wyck); in Seton Village, N. Mex. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...courts and to available Sunday afternoon societies that it was wrong and was to be rooted out of Boston. Bodwell was an intellectual pugilist who was ready to go anywhere to supervise personally the humiliation of those who strayed, and was also ready to take to the sawdust trail of oratory in any argument over Evil in Boston...
Whistle Round the Bend. Makers of toy trains expect to satisfy only one-half of the tremendous demand. Model railroads have lighter (plastic) and longer trains, remote-control electronic systems that switch and disconnect cars, station masters that announce arrivals, electronically operated cranes, locomotives that whistle, chuff, and trail real smoke...