Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miami Valley Hospital Dayton, Ohio
...valley of the Po, through Italy's richest industrial area, swept in mid-August a proud Italian Army, bent on repulsing an imaginary "Red" (French) invasion. Suddenly, mysteriously, the maneuver ended. As suddenly, Hitler invaded Poland, the Allies declared war. Il Duce disappeared from public view. It was rumored that he had had a heart attack. Whether or not he was sick, his heart was certainly sore. After 17 years of martial preparation for the second World War, he had been forced by his generals to realize that whether or not Italy wanted to fight, Italy could not fight...
Fifteen years later, in Caney Valley, a 16-mile-long, rock-rimmed gorge, seven miles from Hindman, Mountaineer Humpty Joab spoke a similar piece. The woman who heard him was Mrs. Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, Boston socialite, author, magazine writer, newspaper editor, ardent suffragette and freethinker. She had fled to Knott County to get over a nervous breakdown. And she got over it. She stayed on, with $10 cash founded Caney Creek Community Center on Humpty 's 153 barren acres...
...these blessings Knott County mountaineers thank aging Alice Lloyd-now 63, hale & hearty in her sweater-&-skirt director's uniform. But for all their education, there is still life in the mountaineers of Caney Valley. Out of sheer high spirits, on moonlight, moonshine Saturday nights they occasionally put a bullet or two through the gateway sign, pepper the headmistress's house with slugs...
...firedog so much that he kept on whittling, and by 1922 he was a full-fledged sculptor. On display in Manhattan's Robinson Galleries last week went a Wheelock retrospective show that started with the dachshund andiron, ended in 1940 with a crisp, stylized figure of Washington at Valley Forge...