Word: carping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noon there's nothing to do, so I work." About Danny Boy. The Thomas legend will be enhanced by the three chapters from Adventures in the Skin Trade, and the 20 stories published with them. Many a poet, when he writes prose, sounds as stodgy as a beached carp, but Thomas easily swam through prose, with a flashing of fins and a show of unexpected twists that could have made him famous as a prose writer if he had never so much as rhymed hell and seashell. Some of the stories sing of the same Welsh town he saluted...
Last week, as the wintering golf pros paused for breath before they swung north on the tournament trail that leads toward Augusta, Ga. and the Masters, the game's critics had plenty to carp about. No one was giving them more cause for concern than burly (5 ft. 11 in., 210 lbs.) Mike Souchak, an All-Southern end just four years out of Duke University and a relative newcomer to the grinding "grapefruit circuit...
Tired, hot and irritable, the pilgrims stopped off for a two-day rest at the ancient beauty spot of Hangchow, where pagodas rim lovely West Lake, in which gold carp come at a visitor's clap. Swimming in a pool in the grounds of a former Buddhist temple, gliding over the lake, the delegation seemed oblivious of the landing craft they had seen assembled along Shanghai's Whangpoo River, and of the Peking radio's loud declaration that China intended to liberate Formosa forthwith-and would "brook no U.S. occupation, no U.N. trusteeship, no neutralization...
Harry Dichter is a waiter at Philadelphia's Ambassador Vegetarian and Dairy Restaurant (pickled herring, lox salad, borsch, carp). The customers know that he is fast, polite and can instantly memorize a complicated order without making a mishmash out of it. What many do not know is that Harry, at 53, is also a man of music. He is one of the top collectors and publishers of American music in the U.S., although, as he admits, "I can't read or play a note...
...perfectionist must have something to carp at in The Pajama Game, he can pick on the scenery by Lemucl Ayers which is not up to recent musical sets. With Misses Hancy and Paige in the cast, on the other hand, the show's best scenery was not designed...