Word: doodlebugs
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Last week Member David Jackman charged that the convention had become a "Doodlebug of Confusion." He promptly added to the confusion himself. With one eye on the hundreds of millions the U.S. had spent on bases in Newfoundland, he proposed that a third delegation be sent to Washington to "inform the . . . U.S. of the convention's wish to learn the [U.S.] Government's attitude on federal union of Newfoundland with...
...hard way from nothing to a plantation and owning slaves, but he never forgot the COMMON MAN. Sitting on his plantation porch of an evening, he would say: "I still love the COMMON MAN," and, with a jet of tobacco juice slanchwise between the Ionic columns, would drown a doodlebug at five yards. So they called him the SAGE of The Hermitage (his plantation...
...located his first well at West Edmond with the aid of his partner's "doodlebug," the wildcatter's equivalent of a divining rod, which geologists scorn as witchcraft...
...British, busy with evacuation of women and children from the capital, reconstruction of destroyed property, rescue and protection, were not laughing off such claims. The nickname "doodlebug" was frowned on as too flippant. Most Londoners called the bombs "those things...
...Otis Town cleared his fifth crop he sent his bride-to-be, a teacher back in the hills, her train fare and a dollar for emergencies. They were married the minute she stepped off the Doodlebug. The minute they got home, Otis Town hurried out to his fields. His wife bore him three children in three years, named them Loraine, Elaine, Otis Van Town Jr. Van looked like his father. The day Mrs. Town saw that he also looked like Wee Boy, she locked her door against "Mr. Town" and called him by that name only, from then...