Word: crookedness
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Then he turned around and rested his other elbow on the mantel. He shook his drink a little, knocked an ash off from his cigarette into the fire place. He looked down at the fine crease of is grey flannel trousers, moving his foot until the cuff rested properly on...
Among venerable establishments like the Three Hussars, the Crooked Lantern and Aunt Resi's, Broadwayish nightclubs sprouted. Racily named Esquire, Zebra and Heidebo, they offered in neat, cultural synthesis U.S.-style jazz and Viennese-style wine (instead of hard liquor).
The same bureaucracy lets the older half of Lisbon (which had survived the 1755 earthquake) wallow. A few blocks from the grandiose and spotless Rocio, Lisbon's counterpart of Times Square, the Old Town's slums have no electricity, running water or sewage. Once a day street cleaners...
Some dowsers were undoubtedly sincere, accepting no fee and believing themselves to be agents of an unknown natural law or supernatural force. Others were small-time swindlers. Their hoary profession survived because, in the many parts of the U.S. level enough for farming, underground water was easy to find, at...
Among the best and most beguiling disguises in the show were twisted Iroquois Indian masks of crooked-faced Go-gon-sa (a god who, like Adam, disobeyed the Creator and took a cuffing for it); a mask of the sacred, snake-devouring eagle Gurula from Ceylon, its head alive with...