Word: brookes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attractions of liquor. In its most recent campaign Bacardi rum (which last year broke industry tradition by using a woman in a liquor ad) urged readers: "When tensions build up-take time to relax." National Distillers adopted the slogan "Sip a Little Sunshine, Pardner" for its Old Sunny Brook Brand whisky, recently changed it to "Pour Yourself a Smile. Neighbor" when the Government frowned. The French National Association of Cognac Producers earlier ran a series of U.S. ads describing cognac as the "harbinger of good appetite, a gentle agent to relax tension, a pleasant inducer of euphoria." Though...
...Noyes house, set in a pine grove just above a brook, harks back to Greek and Roman town houses, built around a central patio. Designed to accommodate a family that includes four children aged four to 16, a squirrel, a rabbit, two French poodles, a parakeet and two ring-necked doves, the house is, says Noyes, "a very hard-boiled piece of architecture." It is basically two houses set in a rectangle formed by side walls of fieldstone and glass. Carried out in a strict modular pattern (columns and girders joining at 11-ft. intervals), the design provides for living...
...Soviet Union was not in a position to deliver effectively on all her economic propaganda offers. It was necessary to demonstrate to friendly nations, by act rather than by oral explanation, that U.S. tolerance of nations which felt it necessary to stay out of Western defensive alliances could not brook the kind of insult which Nasser presented in his repeated and accumulated unfriendly gestures . . . Nasser combined the right timing, the right geography, and the right order of magnitude for a truly major gambit in the cold...
...best popular song around, though, is Mickey and Sylvia's "Love is Strange" with intriguing lyrics and an exceptionally frantic instrumental background of electric guitar notes effectively capture the spirit of the age. Songs with more --- lyrics are Hadda Brook's "Old Man River" and Bob Cort's "It takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Blues...
Samuel Bernstein, the son of a Hasidic scholar, fled Russia when he was 16, to escape both the Czar's draft and the ghetto life. In New York City, in 1910, he found a job cleaning fish underneath the Brook lyn Bridge, for $1 a day. After a while he managed to get himself "in hair" ? he worked in a wigworks that made "rats" and "transformations." By the time Lennie was born, Sam had moved to Boston's Allston section and was building a prosperous business of his own as a beauty-parlor supplier...