Word: em
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...County. When he had accumulated an estate of 83,000 acres extending ten miles along the Hudson River north from the Croton River and "a day's journey" [20 mi.] eastward to the Connecticut line, he built himself a fort-like house of red sandstone, with loopholes, cannon em-brasures, 3-ft. walls. King William III of England bestowed upon him in 1697 full manorial privileges.* When he died in 1700, his large estate had been divided in his will among his four sons, seven daughters. The Van Cortlandt fort was changed into a manor house, where the male...
...ravening threat to rabbits. He once caught a pheasant by accident and had no idea what to do with it, was relieved when it went away. Best scene in the book: a description of two strange dogs meeting for the first time, "both with hangdog look, miserable and deeply em barrassed and both incapable of yielding an inch or of passing each other...
...many another oldster learning to read and write went M. S. Gains, 72, of Apison, Tenn. He presented President Hoover with a basket of sweet potatoes, declared afterwards: "And I whispered to him that come frosty weather, I'd send him a 'possum to go with 'em. And that pleased him. He was tickled. He laughed." ¶President Hoover dotted his last "i's," crossed in his last "t's" in speeches he will deliver this week at Cleveland, Boston. Kings Mountain, N. C. Republican candidates throughout the land hoped hard that these Presidential addresses...
...ninth" at Rapidan You will hear 'em shouting...
...machine professionals. . . . [As for Socialism] at times the Scripps-Howard independence becomes little more than erratic whimsy. . . . [Mr. Howard] says I should stay on the sidelines with him and the rest of the Scripps- Howard executives joining in the long-drawn independent-liberal cheer of 'Hold 'em, forces of reform and decency...