Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decades, perhaps centuries, before the woman called Marie Harel was born, farmers and their wives in the green, rolling valley near the Norman town of Vimoutiers were making a rich, creamy cheese known as Camembert. Like the rest of them, Marie, whose years spanned the latter half of the 18th century, probably made and relished the cheese herself, but beyond that, no one in Vimoutiers recalled that she had any special connection with it. There was, true, a local legend that one of Marie's relatives had once been received by Napoleon III and had given...
...should I give him the publicity?"); Instead she darts around the district on her own, outfitted for frequent changes of clothes in the hot weather (she believes that a rumpled woman candidate wins no votes) and armed with a card catalogue on issues. She is well up on unique valley-farm problems such as irrigation and the astronomical cost of good land, promises to try to bring small business into the area if elected. Last week, when a listener asked for her views on organized labor, Millionairess Jackie set the Republican audience back on its heels. "I went down into...
...Family. While Jackie flies, earthbound Judge Saund concentrates on the new voters of Riverside, the largest urban area. (As a vice-fighting district judge in the little farm town of Westmorland, Saund is already well known in the Imperial Valley.) To help get him known to the new Riverside residents, Saund's wife, son, two daughters and a couple of in-laws have conducted a prodigiously successful registration drive, adding 6,500 new voters to the county rolls in eleven weeks. Saund himself travels tirelessly from Kaffeeklatsch to luncheon talk to dinner speech in his six-year-old Buick...
Susannah proved to be a relentless but gripping tragedy of man's inhumanity to man. The scene is New Hope Valley, Tenn.; the time, today. An evangelist arrives in town with the intention of saving a passel of souls. Town elders go into the woods to find a suitable baptismal stream, are suddenly thunderstruck to see Susannah bathing in the altogether. This vision is enough to convince them that the girl is possessed of the devil, and that it is everybody's duty to cleanse...
...letters are packed with humor, both conscious and unconscious. For a girl from New Orleans, Wolfe wrote a delightfully bawdy poem called A.D.-2024, and, flying up the Rhone Valley, he looked down from a height of 3,000 ft. and saw "a little moving dot in one of the fields shoveling manure: it looked so much like a critic that I have not wanted to finish my letter since." High comedy results from Wolfe's continual difficulties with he friends and relatives who considered hat he had behaved abominably in puting them in his books. After the publication...