Word: echoeing
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...better suited for such bulky items as blankets and draperies than for men's suits and outerwear. Fulltime attendants (often required by local laws) sent up labor costs. Electric bills were high, and machines frequently proved unreliable. Clothes often came out smelling like sulphur. Many began to echo the wry dismay of Irwin Gott, a Houston jeweler-turned-drycleaner: "I didn't intend this to be a nonprofit corporation; it just turned out that...
...echo of our unknowing...
...flat style. With such parental credentials, "Bunny" Garnett became almost automatically a charter member of the post-World War I Bloomsbury group, which included Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster. Those earlier friendships he wrote of in the first two volumes of his autobiography-The Golden Echo and Flowers of the Forest. In the present volume he opens, with a necrology-a list of the old familiar faces that disappeared from his world in the 1930s by suicide, bomb, cancer, tetanus, flying, steeplechasing and assorted other agents. The Familiar Faces is their obituary...
...European Economic Community. Venerable Jean Monnet, the father of the Common Market, took issue with De Gaulle by insisting that Britain should be admitted now because it has already "renounced all preference for the Commonwealth and has agreed to place itself with the Continent." But even Monnet seemed to echo De Gaulle by adding that "we should move toward a unity of action between Europe and America, acting as equal partners...
...generation is thinning out. Casimir's death followed the deaths of Clarinetist Steve Angrum and Drummer Chinee Foster. The jazz played by the remaining old men limps along on failing lips and shortened breath. But even so, the music at Preservation Hall is often better than an echo of what used to be: like the Whoopin' Blues, it is a cheerful way of saying goodbye...