Word: trunkful
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...from hall to hall with striped calico shirts, ruffled sleeves, flaring collars. One Saturday night, on tour, his minstrel leader asked him to compose a new "walk around" (stage march) for use the next day. Emmett frowned at the hurry order, went to his hotel, rummaged out of his trunk the rough draft of a tune he had thought up some years before. The words for the tune had been suggested to him by a grumble he had often heard on the lips of circus performers "up North" when nippy autumn nights set in: "I wish - I was in Dixie...
...stump in the rear of the temporary White House is the temporary home of Rebecca, pet presidential raccoon. One day last week Rebecca vanished. Attachés called "Rebecca! Rebecca!" Located, eventually, in a neighboring yard, Rebecca hopped from tree to tree while pursuers rushed from trunk to trunk. After two hours Rebecca, tired, permitted herself to be captured...
...John Philip Sousa, Mr. Sousa says: "The story of the supposed origin of my name is a rattling good one, and, like all ingenious fables, permits of international variation. The German version is that my name is Sigismund Ochs, a great musician, born on the Rhine, emigrated to America, trunk marked S. 0., U. S. A., therefore the name. The English version is that I am one Sam Ogden, a great musician, Yorkshire man, emigrated to America, luggage marked S. O., U. S. A., hence the cognomen. The domestic brand of the story is that I am a Greek named...
...confused with Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, great grain, lumber and iron ore terminal, on Lake Superior, for Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific railways...
...curse for biting a hole in a preacher's cheek. Most likely it was the poison with which he defied God and nature, the boll-weevil killer that none would help him spray in the fields. He comes back from the hospital only the shriveled trunk of the towering black pine he was, to die of despair. Other prominent figures are ripe young Joy, April's last duchess; mountainous Big Sue, who slapped jealous Leah dead; amiable Uncle Bill, the plantation saint; malicious Brudge and sensitive Breeze, two of April's older boys; intelligent, defiant Sherry...