Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mark Twain Tonight! The stage is a faded daguerreotype, with a high, old-fashioned lectern, a desk with a topply mound of books and a cut-glass pitcher of water, a McKinley-era chair. Into this setting shuffles the spry, white-maned humorist in the white suit. Involuntary tremors ripple the stiffened fingers, the lower jaw nibbles spasmodically at wisps of tobacco-stained mustache, the shoulders twitch like marionettes in the invisible hands of time. But a pagan glint of eye suggests that this is a life less spent than well spent. Then the voice, cracked but not ruined, speaks...
...patients who have a tendency to form kidney stones, doctors usually want to increase the flow of water through the system. And to speed it up, some have prescribed diuretics (of which no fewer than 109 are listed in the Physicians' Desk Reference) though this may be dangerous. Last week Urologist Julius H. Winer of the University of California Medical Center in Los Angeles reported in the A.M.A. Journal that he had confirmed what suds lovers have known for centuries: among his patients, "beer gave an adequate rapid diuresis in most cases." It is safe...
Braine's novel, in fact, presents a startling parallel to The Red and the Black. Like Julien Sorel in Stendhal's masterpiece, Hero Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) is a handsome young parvenu of considerable practical intelligence. Rising 25, he sits at his desk in the town hall and dreams the usual "clerk's dream" of sports "cars, town houses, Riviera villas, linen sheets-and women who look right in them. "I'm going to have the lot," he announces grimly one day, and, like Sorel, he sets his cap for the daughter (Heather Sears...
Amid the clutter on his statehouse desk, Ohio's new Governor Michael V. (for Vincent) DiSalle keeps a framed motto attributed to the late Herbert Bayard Swope: i CANNOT GIVE YOU THE FORMULA FOR SUCCESS, BUT I CAN GIVE YOU THE FORMULA FOR FAILURE-TRY TO PLEASE EVERYBODY...
...unexpected decision to return to the hospital, immediately stirred speculation that the secretary has made his final decision about whether he can ever return full time to his State Department duties. State Department aides were clearly worried over the propects of Dulles ever returning full time to his desk...