Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...openers, the plot presents a kindly old professor at Oxford who inexplicably accepts a bundle of boodle from the Russians and then jumps to his death from a speeding train. Was the dear old boy a traitor? Or was he a heuristic hero self-brainwashed by sensory deprivation...
Lazarillo moves on to other masters, among them one of the most appealing creatures of the Spanish imagination, a knight-aberrant who is obviously a direct literary ancestor of Don Quixote. The dear fellow is a physical coward who runs at the first hint of a fight, but later, safe in his bedroom, rips out his rapier and slaughters imaginary myriads. He is so poor he seldom eats more than twice a week-in one hilarious frame the camera wistfully observes that his chamber pot is filled with cobwebs. But he is proud. Whenever he leaves the house, he picks...
...four other treason defend ants beside Mama Tula in the dock, Teiko Tagoe, 20, readily admitted to possession of a live hand grenade at a meeting of Nkrumah's party last January. Another, Joseph Quaye Mensah, 57, owned up to mailing the Redeemer an anonymous letter warning, "Dear Dr., This is to inform you I am still chasing you until I ... have you killed," but pleaded that he was only trying to scare Nkrumah. When the testimony ended, the three white-wigged judges filed out, spent another two weeks preparing a 6,000-word decision. When they returned last...
...Hutton & Co. brokerage concern. Considering his daughter "amply provided for" (Dina's husband is Colgate Heir Stanley M. Rumbough, her mother, Mrs. Marjorie Post May, heiress to the Post Toasties millions), the stockbroker left the greater share of his fortune to Third Wife Dorothy Dear Hutton, the remainder to be divided between Stepdaughter Joan Metzger Patterson and the three Rumbough children. But Dina, crisply unhappy about the division, filed suit in a Nassau County court. "My father's will disinherited my children-his only grandchildren," said she enigmatically. "I am taking action as any mother would...
...visit in 1954. she noted that "all is privilege in that country,'' and observed with an English country girl's disapproval a prevalence of goats, "sure sign of poverty and fecklessness." She generally avoided giving offense, and she found Stalin, who was safely dead, a "dear old soul...