Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First thing Jimmy's wife Marjorie did was what any good newspapergirl would do: she cabled I. N. S. the story of Jimmy's arrest. Said she, with only a trace of the indignant wife: "Police firmly decline to give any reason for Young's arrest. . . . Even pajamas are not permitted to reach...
...Masefield admitted: "My husband has been approached on the subject, and the quotation in his opinion is the work of a modern poet writing in Biblical style. From the style he thought it might possibly be written by G. K. Chesterton. He went to considerable trouble to try to trace the words, but without success." Sir Edward Denison Ross, the eminent British expert on Oriental literature, guessed that the words must come from an unpublished work, because "they are so good" that if they had been published the author would certainly be known...
...Ogden family liked farming, or had any aptitude for it; in nearly 20 years of grim hard work they wound up with no more than they started with. It was "a round of servitude to beasts." It stripped parents not naturally unkind of every trace of tenderness. Every human effort to escape into a better world was suspect and contemptible. So far as George was concerned, life was virtually nothing but work, harder, always, than his body was yet capable of. He suffered also under a strong, sadistic elder brother, Harvey. Among other misfortunes he: fell into a well...
...destroyed the old building, which they would have had to tear down, left them richer by $277,671 in insurance. To lay out the new buildings Architects Gordon Kaufman and Paul Williams were hired, turned out an imposing, 69-room hunk of hotel (late Californian with a Southern Georgian trace), plunked on a handsome mountainside. To dress it up inside, Decorator Dorothy Draper was brought from Manhattan. She did it complete with drapes of chintz and tweed, turned out uniforms for the help, wound up with small items, toothpicks and swizzlesticks in black...