Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story by interviewing the bankers, economists, labor leaders who can give remote decisions local dollars-and-cents impact. One reason is that business news is frequently entrusted to a shaky old hand or an untested new one. "Being assigned to business," sniffs a Phoenix reporter, "is like being made dog editor." City editors too often agree. Thus, on a big local-business story such as a strike or a proxy fight, the cityside reporter who can be trusted to turn in sharp, dramatic copy is almost certain to get the assignment over a specialist familiar with the issues...
Past the pink neon, away from Hot Dog Johnnie's and the Tower of Pizza, off the asphalt and under the elms, thousands of tourists were finding the peace of quiet ways and the charm of old things. Browsing through side-road antique stores, they gratefully swelled a business that has grown for four decades now, and keeps right on growing. Are antiques art? The mid-19th century farmer who carved a mold for his wife to make cookies for his little daughter's birthday would have smiled at the thought. He was an artist nonetheless, a creator...
Like a vacationer stretched out in a hammock, the economy took its ease while the experts debated the future. Is it suffering merely from a seasonal lack of energy, or from a torpor that will last beyond the dog days of summer? Said New York's Guaranty Trust Co.: "The widespread expectation of an upturn in business this autumn is in some measure the product of hope rather than of tangible signs of rising activity." Guaranty's reasons: "Consumer caution" and a lack of "buoyancy in business operations." The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago also reported "less than...
...Caliban, bound out of Liverpool for Rangoon, things get worse. The lascar stewards curse foully-yet only Pinfold seems to hear. Something, he thinks, is wrong with the ship's ventilating gear; by some acoustic or electrical freak, he hears conversations, snatches of music, and a dog snuffling in the night. Then he somehow listens to an obscene lecture on sex by some evangelical clergyman (though none appears on the passenger list). New voices make themselves heard. They become menacing and are well-informed on Pinfold's private affairs...
Estelle Winwood recreates delightfully her original fluttery Broadway portrayal of Mme. Constance, the Madwoman of Passy, who keeps an imaginary pet dog and won't open her door unless a caller knocks twice and meows thrice. Maureen Hurley is amusing as the chaste Mlle. Gabrielle, the Madwoman of St. Sulpice, who hears voices in her sewing-machine and hot-water bottle. And Adele Thane brings the vigor of Margaret Rutherford to Mme. Josephine, the Madwoman of La Concorde, who still goes every day to wait for Woodrow Wilson...