Word: caving
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...draped itself in hammock and palms and reopened two months ago as a calypso club with a Bahamian trio, two steel drummers. It has since added a converted blues singer named Anne English, now "Lady English," and two Harlem hat-check girls turned dancers. Oldest (eight months) calypso cave is Third Avenue's Jamaican Room, where the Virgin Islands' Carl McCleverty packs them in nightly with calypso in close to its pristine bawdy state...
Huston soon puts a stop to this sort of fiddle-faddle. All at once enemy troops arrive, and the nun and the marine are forced to take refuge in a tiny cave. To make things more explicit, the nun comes down with a fever, and the marine is forced to undress her and wrap her in warm blankets. Having landed, he now seems to have the situation well in hand...
...nationhood." In 1951, long failing of sight, he became blind, but he kept up his furious writing: "Milton had his daughters, I have my Dictaphone." Poet T. S. Eliot called him "the most fascinating personality of our time," combining "the thought of the modern and the energy of the cave...
Boycotts & Bullets. Since weeklies are closer than dailies to readers and advertisers and more vulnerable to the pressure of advertisers, they are often hit by economic boycotts. But few editors cave in under such threats-or worse. In Granite City, Ill., after Editor Cornelius E. Townsend had waged an editorial campaign against organized gambling in the community, a hoodlum recently emptied his revolver into Townsend's Press-Record office. Echoing many a fighting editor before him, Townsend said: "Maybe they'll scare hell out of me someday and I'll quit. But I don't think...
...much to hope that the building itself can cure, but clearly it can be a symbol of health. I guess my psychiatric friends might say it's a back-to-the-womb feeling. But then that's been basic to all architecture since the comfort of the cave...