money. "To spin a web" is what a spider does, but it also can mean to make secretive and perhaps immoral plans. "To revolve" is to circle around, like the planets revolve around the sun. In the vast configuration of things, I’d say your nothing but a scurvy little spider. And that goes for you, too! A truly classic line! "The vast configuration of things" is a way of saying "the universe as a whole," and the adjective "scurvy" means cruel or worthless, though this is very rarely used today (However, the noun scurvy is a well known disease caused by lack of vitamin C). Why in the world did you marry a guy like me? :: To keep from being an old maid? Note that "in the world" added immediately after a wh question adds emotion such as surprise. Women who don’t marry by a certain age are afraid that they may become unattractive "old maids." Mary, you’re on the nest?! George Baily lassos stork! Two ridiculously old-fashioned expressions. When a woman was "on the nest," she was pregnant. "To lasso" a bird is to capture it with a rope, and a "stork" is in fact a bird that children still think brings babies to a house. She had a boy, then a girl, and day after day, she spent the days remaking the old Granville house into a home. Note that a house is an actual building, while a home is more than just a physical structure since it also connotes the family that lives there. Potter was bearing down hard… Another way of saying to put on a lot of pressure. Sam Wainwright made a fortune in plastic hoods for planes. The front covering of a car or plane that often protects the engine. Potter became head of the draft board………1A. The "draft board" is the governmental body that decides who has to serve in the military. "1A" is a rating that was given to those people who had no medical or emotional problems, and thus had to serve. Gower and Uncle Billy sold war bonds. A type of loan that citizens made to the government, in order to help pay for the war. Harry Baily topped them all; A navy flier, he shot down 15 planes, two of them as they were about to crash into a transport full of soldiers. "To top them all" is to do something more impressive than all the others. The navy is that part of the military that fights on the sea. George? 4-F on account of his ear. "4-F" was the rating given to people who had some physical problem which prevented them from serving in the military (Of course, many people wanted to be 4-F, especially during the Vietnam War!)."On account of" is another way of saying because of. George fought the battle of Bedford Falls; Air raid warden, paper drives, scrap drives, rubble drives. The "air raid warden" was responsible for testing the town’s alarm systems to make sure they would work if there were an attack from the air (In rea
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