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...contrary, Mr. Speaker Edward Algernon Fitzroy of the House of Commons sits not high upon a rostrum but low in his great oak-canopied Chair, facing an oblong room richly panelled. On his right rise the Government benches, on his left the Opposition. The members may recline at full length when the House is not too full. They may wear hats (must wear them when raising a point of order during a division), may not smoke, may not drink, may not address the House in any language except English...
Unleashed in an oak grove where truffles (warted, globular fungus growths) are found, they race madly about, start digging furiously under the admiring eyes of their owners. Once the swine discover the fungus, a few inches under the ground, the keeper must be alert and ready, unless he has an unusually fine animal. When keeper spies truffle, he slaps the pig on the snout with a rod, seizes the truffle, rewards the pig with a few acorns...
...Niagara Falls, George E. Stathakis, Buffalo baker, wrapped himself in a pneumatic mattress, got into a steel & oak barrel, slid over the Horseshoe Falls. Next day his body was recovered...
...wanted to see alert, big-voiced Comptroller Sproul, he might be found busy at the university's work on the oak-grown Berkeley campus, or among the broad vineyards at Kearney, or in the fat fields of Davis. As it was when he was comptroller, his task as president will be the administration of a $60,000,000 plant whose holdings include over 13,000 acres, whose annual income is $11,000,000 from state, federal and private sources?California's biggest cultural investment...
...Oak Vale, Miss., died "Uncle" Willis Pittman, 101, survived by 12 children, no grandchildren, 150 great-grandchildren, 75 great-great-grandchildren...