Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tempters. In little French Canadian villages there is the traditional thick soupe aux pois to which the habitants attribute their virility. For dessert there are crisp little grand-pères (doughballs cooked in a pot of maple syrup). In the Maritimes, there are lobsters and clam chowder, Annapolis Valley baked apple dumplings, and a sturdy pudding called blueberry grunt. On the prairies the great delicacy is smoked Winnipeg goldeye (a Canadian lake fish) done to a golden turn, and Vancouver brings forth huge meaty crabs from the icy waters of Boundary...
Last week, the morning the season opened at Silver Creek, the weather was just right. Oldtimer Art Wood, a guide from Sun Valley, grinned as he stalked through some willows to his pet spot. After a few expert casts (his friends say that he can put his fly into a sugar bowl at 30 paces), there was a resounding splash and his rod bent double. He played the fighting rainbow and pulled out a three-pounder-middling by Silver Creek standards. Then he caught eight more. Up & downstream from him, oblivious to buzzing mosquitoes, were ardent anglers who had camped...
...Making tourist trade the leading industry in Saguenay valley...
...theories of Walter Pater. In Florence, he earned a bare living escorting tourists through the galleries until, in 1894, he published his Venetian Painters of the Renaissance, the first of four handy, brilliant guidebooks which netted him enough to buy a lavish 17th Century villa high above the Arno valley...
...country, known Loyalists who lived throughout the war alongside patriotic heroes, only visited and warned if they became too outspoken or charged too high prices. Some of the same people attended American dances, after the recapture of Philadelphia, as had danced with the British officers during the winter of Valley Forge...