Word: finale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife, and his two young daughters threshing out the news. After breakfast he walks to his roomy, book-lined studio where with much pacing and squirming and pipe-smoking, he struggles to express a complex idea in a few vivid lines and a brief, usually wry, caption. The final drawing is done rapidly with a fine brush...
...Later in the evening with a tray full of glasses, water, ginger ale and bottles, one of our men going into the big library slipped and dropped the entire tray on the floor. And, as a final catastrophe, on Sunday afternoon my husband, moving backward across the grass by the swimming pool, almost sat on another tray of glasses and pop bottles...
...they get the best salaries in town. The Record was the first Philadelphia paper to sign a contract with the Newspaper Guild; the rest have followed. Record men have fun, fight the Inquirer tooth & nail for scoops. The night Huey Long was dying both papers waited for the final flash until long after the usual Sunrise edition deadline. Finally the Record staff turned out all the lights in the building. Soon the Inquirer lights, a few doors up the street, went off and the Inquirer's, staff went home. Ten minutes later came word of Huey's death...
...quarrels, the crazed sadism of Monk's accusations, or the deadly criticism that Mrs. Jack shoots back. Because she always comes back for more, however, because they make up from time to time and declare "Was there ever love like ours?" it is a long time before the final parting. Near the end Monk makes his bitterest accusation: "I've lost my squeal" -meaning his "wild goat-cry of pain and joy and ecstasy...
...Mermoz, surveyor of the Casablanca-Dakar line across the Sahara, the South American line between Buenos Aires and Santiago; veteran of a dozen smashups; who, before he was lost in the South Atlantic, confessed to Saint Exupéry: "It's worth it, it's worth the final smashup...