Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Black Jack Bouvier moved into Grey Gardens in between the wars with his wife, his sister Edith and her husband, a lawyer. Then came the Wall Street crash and the Bouvier fortune was smashed. The Bouviers moved out and Edith's husband ran off, leaving her as the sole mistress of the mansion. Jacqueline and Lee Bouvier were brought up there with Edie, who at the time outshone them both--her prospects seemed boundless. But things reversed themselves. Jackie went off to marry Jack Kennedy, Lee became a princess, and Edie was left behind, never quite able to break away...
...would thought it? One day I remember him. He was all wobbly on the roller rink. A maniac. He'd rush around, crash into old men who'd end up lying in the middle of the rink. And he'd wail. He'd always want to skate to 19th Nervous Breakdown...
...writes Comedian Groucho Marx, recalling the publication of his first book. Titled Beds and based on his 1920s contributions to old college humor magazines, it was a string of one-liners and double-entendres detailing uses and misuses of the mattress. It also sold like common stocks after the Crash. In fact, recalls Groucho, now 85, "during the next 40 years, people refused to have anything to do with beds. Whole families slept standing up." This month the author will try again with another edition of the book. The 1976 version will include a new introduction by the comedian...
...somehow sensed the apocalyptic moment bestirred itself and rustled off in fright. Just then the song had a rawness and currency that it has since lost in the thousands of times it has been replayed, years later, at white people's parties, and on that afternoon it threatened to crash everything in the city to the ground. By the time the bus reached Druid Hill Avenue, however, the song was over, and all was still...
...point today, you told a group of people that you were against legislation of marijuana because you had read a study somewhere saying that it caused 'brain-damage.' At another point during the day you told another crowd that you were against laws requiring motor-cyclists to wear crash helmets because you thought it wasn't the government's job to legislate against actions by people that would harm only themselves. It's clear that anybody on a motorcycle going down the road at 60 mph is going to suffer brain damage if he crashes and hits his head...