Word: clauses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a three-month search in the Hi malayas for the Abominable Snowman, New Zealand's famed Mountaineer Sir Edmund HiHary descended into Nepal with only one furry shred of evidence that the Snowman has any more substance than Santa Claus. Sir Edmund's trophy: a scalp that Himalayan natives, who have treasured it as a good-luck hairpiece for some 250 years, believe to be a genuine yeti remain. To get the scalp, Hillary had to do some sharp bargaining with local witch doctors, who feared that disaster might strike if the scalp were taken from their...
Period of Adjustment. Trading claws for Santa Claus, Broadway's master of violence, Tennessee Williams, has written a comedy-lecture on how to stay married, which is superficial, dexterous and lively...
December in Boston--Santa Clauses outnumber policemen, and Santa Claus sees nearly every citizen...
Filene's alone employs at least 10 Santa Clauses, some to display toys in the window, some to open their laps to expectant children. The Santa Claus in the window delivers readings from something called "The Good Book," which presumably contains the names of every child in Boston (or at least all those fortunate enough to press their noses against Filene's front window-pane...
Anyone who thinks that the Santa Claus trade is seasonal has just not kept up with the most recent technological developments in the world of Yuletide Joy. At least one of Filene's Santas is employed full-time, pursuing his occupation in Canada during the summer months...