Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the author's ideas are first-rate. A blackmailer shows up, for instance, with the information that the matriarch of the clan, who is very lineage-conscious, did indeed have an ancestor who sailed on the Mayflower-but who jumped ship at Plymouth, England, because the weather was unpleasant. And there is a married couple who feud by doing each other's chores-she shines his shoes, and in riposte he Duzzes her undies. Invention of this sort is too much trouble, however, and for the most part the author amuses himself with the same...
...Rolls-Royce does not "chug" no matter what the weather may be. It may skip, falter and, on rare and seldom proven occasions, even fail, but chug-never! It glides...
...economic news of the week was as chilling and uncomfortable as most of the nation's weather...
...years, a weather-beaten FOR SALE sign has drooped dispiritedly in front of the big Victorian house. With its crazy turrets, towers and gables, the place half-frightens Katie Charles, a pony-tailed 13-year-old who lives across the street and pretends that the house is a haunted castle. One day the sign is gone, and a contagious whisper races along the sycamore-lined street that the house might as well be haunted. The first Negro family is moving into Sheridan Avenue in the placid Midwest suburb of Courtland Park...
...about all nature. Every blessed thing on earth (Ben had little theological curiosity) he wrote about, asked about, or collected facts about-vacuum jars, the "humors" produced by yellow fever, machines for producing static electricity (fatal to some rats), systems of government and ventilation, the geology of Pennsylvania, the weather, the making of glass, the weaving of cloth, and the proper way to build a fort. When he was not advertising muskets for sale he was procuring them for his Pennsylvania militia, drawing up the order of companies and ordering maneuvers on the next fair day after rain...