Word: farmyards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agree with Professor Dobie that the coyote is one of the most interesting of animals. He is a natural as a "story-maker." A friend of mine in Colorado saw a coyote trot boldly into his farmyard in broad daylight, whereupon his big collie gave chase, was ambushed by two accomplices of the decoy, and killed by the three of them within 200 yards of the house...
...life," said the Hungarian Count who has lost his huge estates, as he sat darning his seeks in an Arlberg farmyard. "In me you behold the only decent-living Hungarian ... I have never made love to a woman behind her husband's back ... I have never had an 'affair.' I have always done it correctly...
...With You." One night in France, Joe Patterson and his cousin, both A.E.F. officers, sat down on a farmyard dunghill for a heart-to-heart chat...
...Farmyard. But Tom Dewey was not asking anyone to see a straw behind his ear. Next day, when photographers snapped and clicked all over Dapplemere, Dewey firmly set his usual limitations, for Candidate Dewey is very much aware of what the camera has done to U.S. politicos. He or his family would don no overalls, feed no chicks, milk no cows, pitch no hay. In white shirt, neat grey trousers, and brown tie carefully in place though the temperature was 90, Dewey for three hours patiently posed for shots showing him only as a spectator-farmer. Typical authorized shot: Dewey...
When he leaves railways, he often discovers other strange features of the English landscape. A farmyard contains a tall tower leaning well to the right (". . . and my Italian prisoners put up the silo"). An enormous bomber roars low over a tiny cottage which, luckily, just fits between the bomber's mighty wheels ("I'm afraid we shall have to leave building the new wing until after the war"). Emett's capacity to embroider a theme with variations applies not only to railways but also to such other redoubtable English features as ear trumpets, bath chairs, lantern-slide...