Word: brooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sticks of gum a day. Sometimes he did not yell for hours. Ants crawled on his puffed, meaty hand, and bees hovered anxiously over it. His tongue grew puffy and his lips thickened and he ran a fever. Day & night the cars kept passing by and the little brook gurgled and talked...
...William James Burger was making a parish call. After he passed the guarded gate at Lower Cupsuptik, he drove through the Maine dusk between high forest walls of spruce and balsam. By the time he reached the Crowley Brook Camp, five deer had bounded out of his headlights' glare...
Praised from all sides by his banqueting flock: roly-poly old (seventyish) Father Divine, who celebrated his year-old marriage to blonde Edna Rose Ritchings, 22, with a medium-staggering dinner in Pine Brook, NJ. Over the happy couple gleamed a purple neon sign: "God's Holy Communion Table of Palace Mission." The bride wore a white gown and gold slippers. Fifty girls in uniforms marked with Vs (for Virtue, Victory and Virginity) choired the host's praises. The guests sat down in early afternoon to a menu featuring 60 kinds of meat, 54 vegetables, 23 salads, eleven...
Toward Goodness. Hangchow was ballyhooed by China's poets from the Sung Dynasty on. They were a fascinating crew, witty, sometimes raffish, often inspired. There was the great Li Po, poet and statesman, who founded a tipplers' club known as the Six Idlers of the Bamboo Brook...
Donahue has a long road record behind him, with an engagement at the Meadow-brook Club in New Jersey the most recent of his bookings. Claiming his primary object to be a "danceable band," Donahue has no clarinets or guitars, and features a male vocalist, Bill Lockwood...