Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flattered Deliphene, played with her 21-month-old baby Rainell, helped install an indoor toilet in her house, and finally became her lover. Martha was beside herself with rage and jealousy-particularly after Ray offered Martha $2,000 and the car to clear...
...Michael & the Zoot-Suits. Ash Wednesday Eve I drove through the most devastated streets of Munich, through rubble lanes barely wide enough for a car to pass, to a factory standing in darkness. We climbed a rickety outside stairs to a second-floor door that opened into a garish six-room apartment, slyly constructed by the factory owner in violation of housing laws. Our monocled host greeted us with tipsy cheeriness as his guests oohed and aahed over his gay shirt pasted with cutouts of Esquire girls. Inside the rooms were assembled, in monstrous taste, old tapestries, carved Italian statues...
...millions of decent, middle-class U.S. citizens who are doing well, have a fire in their heels to do still better, and in their thoughtful moments suffer a fugitive feeling of discontentment from start to finish. Charley and Nancy have been to college; they have a house and a car, even a membership in Sycamore Park's second-best country club. All they want at the moment (besides the vice-presidency) is a newer car, membership in the Hawthorn Hill Club, prep school for the children and, later, when they can manage it, a rather better house...
...wife had lived in a style to which I was not accustomed. We had to have a maid-of-all-work. Then we had a baby and we had to have a nurse. Then we had to have a car. And ever since then I've been over a barrel...
This spring, a great many U.S. readers (including thousands of Charley and Nancy Grays) will be reading Point of No Return on commuting trains and at home, after the family car has been run into the garage. Ineligible for Book-of-the-Month Club selection because Marquand is one of the club's five* judges (it can and will be a B-O-M "dividend" book), the novel has already gone through four printings totaling 80,000 copies. Wiseacres in the publishing business look upon the figure as a mild beginning...