Word: feys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crazy Like a Fox includes 46 of the fey five-finger exercises with which Humorist Perelman has since tickled the funny bones and ribs of readers of the New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. This crowded showcase displays Perelman's talents as a gagman at their best. But it also reveals the monotony of his formula, which to some readers is as enervating, in its way, as the late Harold Bell Wright...
...strange times and strange places when men were more brutal and unprincipled than they are today, and at the same time more intimately aware of God. As such, it carries its own peculiar kind of conviction, especially in its engaging central figure, whom Author Kossak draws as gay, fey and disconcertingly sincere...
Certificates for successful completion of the course were presented to nine cadets. They will receive their reserve commissions after camp training this summer. Receiving certificates were Arnold M. Anderson, of Duluth, Minn.; William A. Ellison, Jr., of Knoxville, Tenn.; John T. Fey, of Cumberland, Md., Thomas J. Glenn, of Spartanburg, S. C.; Murray Harris, of Patterson, N. J.; Robert Polidor, of Salt Lake City, Ut.; Jack B. Quinn, of Chicago, Ill.; Paul W. Seiler, Jr., of Farmington, Mich.; and Robert M. Wattron, of Berkley, Calif...
...each consisting of a single pregnant word. One "book" reads "tree." He can also "hear" another vagrant brother in New York playing Paul Whiteman's old waltz, Wonderful One, on the cornet. A shy official arrives, bent on canceling the pension check, but is so beglamored by the fey, bemused life of the household that he arranges to have the payments continued. An old laborer and the parish priest gather round for a drink and contemplation of the universe. Finally the wandering cornetist comes home and plays Wonderful One in the parlor. His father exclaims: "Polestar and pyramid...
...this scheme work out? CAB admitted that it did not work out at all. Howard Fey crashed around 4:42 a.m. The tape showed that the beam had begun to act up three hours before. But none of the four listeners had noticed it. Trip 16's company of ten had been dead on the mountainside for an hour before Operator Daley at Salt Lake City discovered that the range was out of order. (Mr. Daley had overslept, was five hours late relieving Operator Andrews...