Word: caledonia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...business. Prince took a fatherly interest in bright young Cousin Billy, taught him how to play hard at polo and baccarat, counseled him in high finance while Billy loafed through literature courses at Princeton ('36). During World War II, when Artillery Captain Billy Wood was on New Caledonia, Cousin Fred wrote and offered to adopt him and eventually to give him a controlling voice in the Prince trust, now worth $150 million, and stewardship over 5% of Armour's stock, the biggest block. Billy Wood agreed, became a Prince...
...service, it is now possible to buy TIME in foreign capitals even before it reaches newsstands in some U.S. towns. Remote areas are still troublesome. After an irate subscriber in Tahiti complained that he was receiving his TIME in batches via bimonthly freighter from Nouméa in New Caledonia, TIME distribution men worked out a biweekly air-freight schedule; circulation in Tahiti has since climbed from 60 to 108. Readers in New Guinea, who long complained about slow service, now receive air-expressed copies before the date of issue, and today number a record 1,300. But one lone...
...fictional device is 16 pages of gamy verses, supposedly in Burns's own handwriting and sewn into a copy of The Merry Muses of Caledonia (the notorious anthology that the poet made to amuse his drinking companions). Max Arbuthnot, a goatish old Edinburgh lawyer with a fondness for '27 port and women of about the same vintage, undertakes to sell the smoldering and hitherto unknown holograph for his impoverished sister. He shows it to a fey, gloomy poet nicknamed Yacky Doo, who amuses himself alternately with a beckoning death wish and with Arbuthnot's married daughter...