Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Early Start. To get around this financial track block, most Canadians agreed that hearty, burly (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Donald Gordon was probably the best man to have at the throttle. A Scottish immigrant boy, he got a job at 15 as a clerk in the Bank of Nova Scotia. At 34 he was picked as first secretary of the new Bank of Canada, became deputy to Governor Graham Towers three years later...
...Wartime Rise. In a role that seemed sure to make enemies all around, Price Boss Gordon won friends by calmly explaining the need for controls in hundreds of speeches and press conferences, then firmly enforcing the policies that had been set to harness Canada's economy. Though labor and industry grumbled at his straitjacketing of wages and prices, the rise in the cost of living was only 18%, compared to a U.S. rise...
...boys roar out into the country in Bentley roadsters, and over Cointreau and plovers' eggs have some dazzling conversations "about God and Truth." But, said Burdick, "Times have changed since Waugh was here. The Oxford homosexual today has neither wittiness nor creative eccentricity to recommend him . . Parties revolve around gin and orange which is, beyond question, one of the most barbaric drinks that any people ever accepted voluntarily. Things boil along to the accompaniment of some old Louis Armstrong records and a lot of very uninformed talk about jazz...
Nothing to Do. "Around midnight, everyone crashes out into the street and runs through the fog and rain looking for something to do. There is nothing to do and the gin wears off and the thing ends in a steamy fish-and-chip shop or over a plate of spaghetti on toast...
...nice sassy way of cutting up-once or twice, even, into murderously small pieces. But it can be genuinely funny as well as sassy, and it disdains rented jokes and reupholstered sketches. Campus bred,* the show has much more pertness than polish; it tends to slouch around with its socks hanging down, and it has the amateur's faith in the pen to the exclusion of the blue pencil...