Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Special Delivery. In San Diego, John McGrath mailed a postcard in a garbage can, discovered his mistake, mailed a duplicate in a mail box; the first card was delivered first...
...novelist, later spent some time near Tolstoy's home in the Crimea. Perhaps he had expected to find a dull old vegetarian disguised in a peasant's smock and spouting platitudes. He found instead a henpecked, shriveled, electrifying man with "shaggy" eyebrows, "wonderful" hands, a passion for card games, a "shocking" coarseness of speech...
Novelist Howe's satire is not the final criticism of higher learning in the U.S., but it has its sting. Harvardmen will recognize the traits and the chatter. The Master of "Bromfield House," who enters on a card each new pun he divines in Finnegans Wake; the English department poet whose looks at least were once Keatsian; the Fogg Art Museum curator and his inseparable friends, young men of debonair malice; the publicity-seeking psychologist from the Midwest and his wife, resolutely unrepressed; and Dorothea's husband, John Calcott, a gentleman. Calcott, always well under control, stuns Dorothea...
...Pompton Lakes, N.J., where Joe Louis trained, he played gin rummy like he fought-coolly, with a slight trace of a frown. He laughed, though, when he got a first-card knock: "Boy, you sure got to concentrate on this game. . . ." Joe didn't like to lose, even when he was playing...
...handful of men from Jaakko Mikkola's Crimson track team dominated the field events at the New England A.A.A.U annual outdoor senior championships at Lynn's Manning Bowl last Thursday night, but an absence of Harvard performers in the track events on the card relegated the Mikkolamen to a third place role in the meet...