Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popular fancy, the huge U.S. corporation is a world apart, operating under mysterious rules and philosophies that are of little concern -or interest - to the housewife or the corner butcher. Businessmen know that this is not so - and perhaps their best proof is the world's largest firm: the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Few corporations in the world are as intimately woven into the life of a nation as A.T.& T. It not only helped the nation grow and prosper, but helped make the telephone a universal instrument that changed the world's mores, entered its drama...
...described herself as an adolescent, dark skinned and sensuous, alone on a street corner listening to music. Overcome by frustration and melancholy, she muttered, "Books, books. Is there no end to it? Nothing to feed my own empty self but musty books?" Again the contradiction, again the complexity...
Signal Check. In Baton Rouge, La., Police Desk Sergeant M. K. Gunby answered a phone call from a lost tourist, who said: "I'm at the corner of Walk and Don't Walk...
...eyes were frozen open. The nurses had to tape them shut at night so I could get to sleep.'' From his bout with hard work. Lieut. Commander Cushing was left with a partial paralysis of the left side of his face that still pulls down the corner of his mouth, gives him a quizzical look. He was philosophical ("There was not a damn thing I could do about it. so what was the use of worrying?"). At war's end he went back to the law (in Wall Street), stuck it out for two years, quit...
Besides a broad Southern accent acquired from her Tennessee upbringing. Bonnie Golightly points to some other evidence. Like Capote's Holly, she lived in a brownstone on Manhattan's fashionable East Side, with a bar around the corner on Lexington. Like Holly, she is an avid amateur folk singer with many theatrical and offbeat friends. Like Holly, Bonnie says: "I just love cats. The cat thing corresponds, and all the hair-washing and a lot of little things hither and yon." One bit of Hollyana to which Bonnie makes no claim: "I've never, absolutely never...