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...alarm only added to the general din of the reawakening city. Besides the noise of heavy traffic, the guttural thrum of private generators and heavy-duty pumps resounded from every block as people attempted to bail out the last vestiges of their week-long baptism...
...Grace, and began promoting it. As performed first by the soloist, Pipe Major Tony Crease, then by the full band, the song is as unabashedly emotional as the sound of the pipers accompanying Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. on their march to the rescue in Gunga Din...
...goods. To an outsider the buying and selling seem like an explosive quarrel; traders scream at each other and gesture with their hands. They are obeying rules that specify that all bids and offers must be called out publicly, and flashing hand signals to make themselves understood through the din. Palm out means buy, palm in means sell; in grain trading, each finger held up vertically signifies 5,000 bushels...
More and more companies are buying up giant tracts of wilderness or desert, subdividing them and launching hard-sell campaigns. The selling effort typically includes idyllic newspaper and magazine ads, mass telephoning, softening-up cocktail parties and din ners for prospective customers, paid transportation to the site, and even free green stamps just for showing up. Many developments are models of intelligent planning, from Titan Group's Yosemite Lakes Park in California to J.M. Huber Co.'s Beaver Cove on Maine's Moosehead Lake. But fraud and misrepresentation persist, and large swatches of unspoiled wilderness are being...
...days depart and pass, laden somehow like processional camels - across the desert of one's solitude," James complained. Yet he possessed the social energy of a professional din ner guest. A master observer of scenes, he sought his scenes out, commuting seasonally to London, and finally in 1904 returning to the United States he had last observed 21 years before. He traveled as far as California on a notably successful lecture tour, sharing with his audiences (at fees of up to $250) "The Lesson of Balzac...