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...census taker quickly printed his spiel on cards.) And probably the easiest count took place at the White House, where the head of the household informed the census taker that the place was regularly occupied (not owned or rented) by himself, his wife and her maid (all white), and that the house has running water, a flush toilet, and 132 rooms...
...easiest ways to predict the future, according to a widely held Wall Street belief, is to assume that the public-or small investor-is wrong in sensing major changes in the market. Thus such chartists as Jacques Coe, senior partner of Jacques Coe & Co., keep close tab on whether the public is buying or selling by watching the trading in odd lots (fewer than 100 shares). Coe contends that the public is timid about buying as the market rises, usually buys heaviest near...
Paradoxically, the most effective ally of the flesh peddler was the prude. As a French police official explained, "The education of English girls is usually of such a strictly prudish character that, in their ignorance of the world, they offer themselves the easiest prey imaginable...
...designated most of the capital's West End section as "Pink Zone" (nonparking towaway area) for the holidays. It was shocking pink to householders, who believe that an Englishman's castle extends at least to his curb. But housewives agreed it made their Christmas shopping the easiest in years. By last week Marples was taking measures to give him more direct control over traffic police and to build vast garages under Hyde Park, increase traffic fines, rebuild roads. Most of his proposals, though shocking to the British, are old remedies...
...Nativity as early as 155; a century later, Origen discussed the authenticity of the site (even Christianity's enemies, he said, admitted it). The manger scene-with the Wise Men from Matthew and the shepherds from Luke-is one of the oldest Christian traditions. It is also the easiest to dramatize. Canticles of the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries-designed to teach doctrine to an illiterate public as well as to entertain-were the precursors of the medieval miracle plays. Some of the old canticles contain poetry that still has power to evoke the mystery and miracle of Christmas...