Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Staffers on Haiti's 50-odd newspapers like to quote Petrarch and Thucydides, compose sonnets and write essays on existentialism, but they rarely get around to covering the news. When they do, their reports are usually sketchy, partisan, filled with slander, vituperation and undocumented sensation...
Even as the one new thing around, Ken Murray's vaudeville is by no means a treat. Part of its fantastic Hollywood success may stem, indeed, from its being just the kind of flesh & blood show a movie metropolis can condescend...
...Tarquin. First prize (modern) went to 39-year-old Sueo Serisawa, for his portrait of his wife, Mary 1949. (Said Serisawa, who won honorable mention in last year's Pepsi-Cola competition with Mary 1948: "I use my wife as a model because she's always available around the house...
...same, he read his Bible carefully and decided that "the attitude of Jesus was strict and uncompromising. He would not accept the position of being Lord of half my life-He wanted it all . . . I argued and tried to think of some way to get around this demand, but whichever way I turned, there He was . . . At long last I concluded that there would be no peace of mind for me unless I yielded to Him without reservation...
...Patrick's Day, Mrs. Berger has a recipe for cooking nettles. Ireland's patron saint is said to have "blessed this prickly plant which we despise or don't even recognize as it grows around us . . . He had known it by its romantic name of Ivar's Daughter, and he blessed it as useful to man and beast. Gather young nettles for yourself in March of early spring. By all means wear gloves. Serve them as fresh vegetables...