Word: clams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chandler still brings some of his sentences to a halt with the too-arresting simile or metaphor. An hour crawls by "like a sick cockroach." A clam-lipped Marlowe says: "What I'd tell him you could fold into a blade of grass." But Chandler's world has a rasping authenticity, from its lingo to its lingerie...
...three months she was married to Met Baritone Robert Merrill, but thinks for the present that marriage and the intensive work of a young career soprano do not mix. Last week, after her impromptu success in Figaro, Soprano Peters went off to a celebrative late supper of spaghetti with clam sauce with her father, her mother and her music teacher...
...Ministry of Internal Affairs prepared Beria's arrest? If the tradition of the service holds, it may well have been his successor: clam-faced Colonel General Sergei Nikiforovich Kruglov, long a liaison man between the ministry and the Kremlin. At Yalta and Potsdam, Kruglov set up the protection screen which surrounded the Big Three,-was one of the very few who had free access to Stalin's quarters. At the San Francisco Conference, turned out in a blue serge suit and broad-toed shoes, he was Molotov's bodyguard. Although Kruglov's police career dates from...
Elegantly outfitted and wearing a vacant smile, Influence Peddler Henry Grunewald stepped back into the spotlight on Capitol Hill last week. It had been 16 months since the mysterious Grunewald first appeared before the House subcommittee investigating the Bureau of Internal Revenue. At that time, he went clam-quiet after revealing no more than his name and age. Last week, having pleaded guilty to contempt of Congress, Grunewald was trying to talk his way into a light sentence. But he was still part clam, opening his shell only when it suited his convenience, clamming up again on questions he deemed...
...Washington, the Maine State Society ordered 500 choice Maine lobsters, gallons of clam chowder and other native delicacies for their annual dinner, invited House Speaker Joe Martin to come along and show how a man from Massachusetts tackles a well-turned lobster claw...