Word: westmorland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Wholesaler. In Westmorland, Calif., after they decided to add a motorcycle cop to the force, town councilmen approached Merill Miller to buy his machine, were forced to give him the job when he threatened not to sell...
...early counting of Yarmouth shepherds (ina, mina, tethera, methera) became "Eena, meena, mina, mo"; and Westmorland's hevera,devera,dick (eight, nine and ten) is the most likely origin of "Hickory, dickory, dock." In the 18th Century, "Hot Cross Buns / One a penny / Two a penny" was a street vendor's cry. "Baa, baa, black sheep / Have you any wool?" probably dates back to the export tax imposed on wool in 1275. The "Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie" goes back to the Renaissance, when live birds really were put in pies, ready...