Word: flea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offered their trinkets for sale to passersby. When the army seemed not to object, they put up awnings over their merchandise, built flimsy wooden booths. They sold everything from ormolu clocks to cracked washbasins, and one of their most popular items was a cheap, "hard" mattress, usually filled with fleas. Thus, back in the 1890s, the famed Paris Flea Market began...
...merchants of the Flea Market last week were once again under pressure from the authorities to move. Their Marché aux Puces has grown into a cluster of six slightly separated markets, a jumble of tumble-down booths and rachitic sheds threaded by wandering, roofed passageways and covering an area of 150 acres. There are about 1,500 shops, employing some 10,000 people, with a yearly turnover estimated at $23 million-one-quarter of it in hard currency...
...Flea Point Landing. In Bell Gardens, Calif., Lester Grinstead leaped from a, bridge, landed 40 ft. below in one inch of water flowing over the concrete bottom of the Los Angeles River, got up, shook himself, walked off uninjured...
...society that placidly accepts the practice of condensing books for adults, only a doughty purist would object to cutting down literary classics to fit the minds of children. But such an objection came from the monthly Bulletin of the Council for Basic Education, a cranky, flea-sized (16 one-column pages) publication that subsists on what it bites from the hide of fuzzy-thinking educators. Among the pre-chewed classics cited by Editor Mortimer Smith: A Tale of Two Cities, from which, in the Globe Book Co. edition, "nonessential parts of the plot" are excised, and "long descriptive and philosophical...
...fortunate few-life with all its Chinese lanterns, lovely tunes and gay sadness." He doted on good food, elegant restaurants and fine cigars, and was so faithful a connoisseur of burlesque that he followed it from Manhattan into wistful exile in New Jersey's flea-bitten strip operas. In his seedy, cluttered hotel apartment near Times Square, Bon Vivant Nathan stored a three-year cache of champagne "in case of siege." In and out of print he loved nothing better than a pretty girl-and feared nothing worse than being married to one. In 1955, after a 17-year...