Word: denly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ROLL BACK THE SEA (435 pp.)-A. Den Doolaard, translated by Burrows Mussey-Simon & Schuster...
Goat's Milk & Whiskey. John's shaggy white mane and beard, bowing among the perfumed, chattering sea of well-dressed gallerygoers at his show, attracted more attention than his paintings. Roaring with good will, he played the lion for an hour, then ducked out to his favorite den, a pub. The time he has spent in pubs adds up to several of his three-score-&-ten years. For reasons of health John now ' alternates liquor in London with goat's milk in the country, but he much prefers the city drink...
...Syracuse, N.Y., Mayor Frank J. Costello* bit his lip and disclosed how things were at the zoo: the leopard had been there 20 years, and was secondhand at that; the jaguar had bitten off the leopard's tail; the lion not only had cataracts but was sharing his den with rabbits...
...replies, 'I ain't stud'in' 'bout car'in' you to no dance. Heah you is doin' ugly all de time wid dat sloo-footed nigger from over on Triumph and won't give nobody else none, den you comes axin' me to care you to de dance...
...never recurred. For recreation, he likes to play gin rummy or backgammon with his wife, swims (sidestroke) twice a week in the Senate pool. Back home in Grand Rapids, he lives in a biggish brick & stucco house, works at an old-fashioned rolltop desk in his book-lined den...