Word: businessman
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...most of the U.S., "squash" is still only a vegetable. But in some large cities, most notably Philadelphia, Boston and New York, it is a fast, sweaty court game for young men, and the middle-aged who cling to the illusion of physical fitness. A businessman who has no afternoons for golf can squeeze in a game of squash racquets after work, shed a few pounds, get home in time for dinner. At Yale, about five times as many students play it on the university's 86 courts (costing some $300,000) as any other sport...
...Businessman. In Moffat, Ont., Grocer Russell Stock Elsley raced into a burning house to rescue Harry Smith, modestly shrugged off praise by explaining: "He's a good customer...
...night-club scene, Cummings shamelessly repeats the Groucho Marx classic: "If we dance any closer, I'll be in back of you." He makes liberal use of several Buster Keaton slapstick techniques, such as the hurling of moist, gooey materials, and has exhumed the standard character of the jittery businessman...
Looking back at past U.S. depressions, from Martin Van Buren to Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman got a good-natured laugh when he mentioned his own 1921 bankruptcy-"when the businessman got into politics," meaning himself. But he turned dead serious when he talked of the need for preventing any such panics in the future by "planned" (i.e., not controlled) economy. Said the President: "It is absolutely essential that the economic structure of the United States of America remain absolutely sound and prosperous, for the simple reason that ... we have become the symbol of what governments should stand for-the welfare...
Bond of Blood. The second and last volume of The Diaries (the first appeared last year) reveals the crescendo of this torment, as it filled tuberculous Franz Kafka's own final years, up to his death in 1924, at 40. His father, a stolid and self-possessed businessman who was a living reproach to the introspective writer, was always at the center of his thoughts. He loved his father and admired him; he also feared and hated him. The "bond of blood too is the target of my hatred; the sight of the double bed at home, the used...