Word: dexterousness
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Mayor "Bossy" Gillis was not Newburyport's first eccentric hero. Late in the 18th century, an illiterate tanner named Timothy Dexter, who had made a fortune in Continentals, moved to Newburyport and there performed commercial prodigies. He shipped mittens and warming pans to the West Indies, coal cargoes to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He cornered the whale- bone market. His profits startled...
...fame of Newburyport, too long dependent on the colonial Lord Timothy Dexter for place in the hot white light, has relegated to the junkheap such prominence. Toll the bell for Lord Timothy, whose accomplishments were limited to the writing of a book, all the punctuation of which was in the last dozen or so pages, who sold warming pans at a profit in the West Indies, and who snatched from thin air a nobleman's title. The king who enjoyed a posthumous rule is dead, and the title of the new one is not "Sir", but "Bossy...
...First Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Tex., returned to national news dispatches last week by a means not even hinted at in his favorite Genesis. Save for local items, Dr. Norris had been out of print since a year ago last summer when he shot and killed one Dexter E. Chipps while the latter was calling on him (TIME, July...
...Story* is about Pauline Manford, her gaily poised daughter Nona Manford, her tired-lawyer husband Dexter Manford, her easy-going son by a former husband Jim Wyant, and Jim's wife Lita...
Reduced to its lowest terms, the action of the book is provided by Nona's love affair with Stan Heuston and Lita's incipient love affair with Dexter Manford. The rest of the characters are so implicitly concerned in one another's actions, each is so much a pillar in the last year of the 19th Century, separate catastrophe would be impossible. Total catastrophe trembles above them like a paper cutter on a thread when Dexter Manford arranges things so that he can, without Jim, have Lita as a guest in his country home. A triviality twists...