Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which she and her friends blame on her unusually severe hangovers. She discovers, from a personable young brain surgeon (George Brent), that her headaches have a more serious cause. The surgeon knows that every day brings her closer to death. Before death comes, on a sunny day at his Vermont farm, Judith knows too, but is convinced that the victory has been hers...
...Vermont poor boy, Thad Stevens was admitted to the bar in John Wilkes Booth's birthplace, Bel Air, Md., practiced law in York, Pa. He had the tough, narrow tenacity and discernment of the perfect sectional and sectarian infighter. As far as he saw, he saw clearly; as far as he thought, he thought honestly and without sentiment. His passionate sympathy for the Negro found fearless expression in his years of intimacy with his mulatto housekeeper, Lydia Smith, generally accepted as his common-law wife...
...Rhode Island once put red dye into 5,000 quarts of Vermont milk...
Italian explanations of why it had become "necessary" to take over Albania were more grimly humorous than usual. Mountainous Albania, about the size of Vermont, was already an Italian economic dependency. With its population of only 1,000,000, with few industries, no railroads, precious little natural wealth, Albania could not plausibly be pictured as a menace to powerful Fascist Italy, but some attempt was made to do so. Even more ludicrous were the Fascist press claims that: 1) Italians were showing their undying love for the Albanians; 2) King Zog, heretofore an unusually obliging Italian puppet, had recently shown...
Like father, like son. At the age of 16, Prince Yeshwant was married-to a girl aged ten. Two years later he left her temporarily for an education at Oxford, where he acquired modern ideas. Back in Indore. a state about the size of Vermont but with 1,300,000 inhabitants (four times as many as Vermont), he built the first air-conditioned palace in India. He did not recondition Indore's archaic tax structure, which gave him one rupee in every three of revenue (estimated annual state income: $5,000,000). Among his reforms have been laws curbing...