Word: cornucopias
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...charging admission for a look at U.S. magazines. The Atlantic Monthly "is not worth even one peanut with a worm inside." The New Yorker and Esquire were in some demand. "Sometimes a copy of TIME was acceptable and sometimes it was not. The one sure way to open the cornucopia of the back room was to produce an issue of LIFE.'' Explained the trader: "It costs one copper for anyone to stand there while the sand runs through the small hole in the bottom of my timekeeper gourd ... I am the only man in this village...
...evening the family gathered together at a candlelit table in the clubhouse's Trophy Room, for their turkey dinner. Fruit, nuts and corn spilled from a yard-long cornucopia. Before posing with his carving knife upside down on the 39-lb. bird, the President expressed his emotions of the moment: "For the first Thanksgiving in the last four, we sit down to our traditional Thanksgiving feast without the fear of the casualty list hanging over us. We no longer have to worry about the killing in Korea." Then with a slight quaver he continued: "My wife...
...tourists who are swarming across Europe this summer, a great number will visit Venice and ride in a gondola. A few of them will go to see Venice's 26th biennial exhibition, one of the biggest contemporary art shows ever staged. It has been characterized as a cornucopia of riches (more than 3,000 entries from 27 nations), and as a pain in the craning neck. The riches are there, and it takes craning to find them...
...Military service is potentially one part of every young man's life today ... In case anyone is interested, I'm a nondisabled combat veteran of World War II, resisting the temptation to pluck giveaway benefits from the VA cornucopia...
Stubborn in a different way is the Hayes Bick, which at last report was still clinging to its Thanksgiving pumpkin and cornucopia...