Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down periodically on a new branch of learning, e.g., for months they smothered visitors with I.Q., vocabulary and personality tests. Although Marx is an agnostic, both shifts belong to the Episcopal Church. Marx stays at home when the family attends services, but ships argosies of toys to the annual bazaar of Scarsdale's Church of St. James the Less...
There are queues everywhere, most of all in the GUM, the big department store on Red Square, half Oriental bazaar and half Woolworth, where store police direct orderly lanes of purchasers first at the counters, then at the cashiers, finally at the delivery windows. The tourist is not likely to find anything he will want to buy at GUM. In the Metro underground, with its palatial stations of marble and glittering chrome, where escalators move at twice the speed of those in the New York subways, Muscovites seem just as glum and incurious as those in the streets. Many will...
...wishes he could do more, and one eye obediently goes blind. No Hathaway-shirt eye patches for him. He commissions Henri Matisse to paint him a blue-eyed poker chip as a monocle. Harper's Bazaar publishes Garvey's picture with his Matisse eye, and soon half the intelligentsia are playing poker with trompe-l'oeil chips. The neat little spoof suggests that Bradbury would do very well if he came out from under that fright...
Neither Berman, who speaks fluent Russian, nor Frye, conversant as well in Uzbek, was easily recognized as a foreigner. On more than one occasion Berman was asked for street directions in Moscow, and Frye acted frequently as an interpreter. Once at a bazaar in Uzbekistan he translated for an Uzbek and a Muscovite, neither of whom could understand the other...
...coming-of-age" birthday, the 25th, Britain's Princess Margaret helped out at a church bazaar in Scotland, slipped in the grass and twisted her ankle. But when her birthday dawned, Margaret rose early at Balmoral Castle, got piping greetings from nephew Charles and niece Anne, then with other members of the royal family drove to Sunday services at nearby Crathie Church. The crowd outside toppled part of the churchyard wall in its crush to see her. The princess looked radiant, especially when the Rev. John Lamb, from the pulpit, wished her "the fulfillment of her desires...