Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ruse in the Night. In Seattle, when a ringing telephone roused Darwin Barker, and a shadowy figure at the foot of his bed said, "Go answer the phone," Darwin hurried off obediently to see who was calling, went back to his bedroom to discover that his trousers, his wallet and the intruder were gone...
When Mrs. Pusey moved to Cambridge, she gave up her vacations at the "clear, cold, and beautiful" lake near the Woodward home in Iowa, and now spends summers with her family in Mt. Desert, Maine, enjoying mountain climbing and sailing with friends. An eight foot pram, built in the basement of 17 Quincy Street, and a battered kayak which was given to Nathan, Jr., are the only family-owned boats...
...gallows on the golf course against the Mau Mau in Kenya. London's big popular newspapers demanded a "get tough" policy against the Greek Cypriot terrorists. Backbenchers in Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Tory Party muttered that Britain's liberal Governor on Cyprus, Sir Hugh Foot, should be replaced by a military Governor-someone like stern Sir Gerald Templer, who used such collective-punishment measures as cutting the rice ration of villagers in Malaya to make them inform on Communists...
...world's great repositories of primitive art is Harvard's Peabody Museum-where few people except students of anthropology ever set foot. Just across the Charles River, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts plays host to hundreds of visitors each day, but it has had no primitive art to show them. Last week the two museums joined forces under an agreement whereby Boston's Fine Arts will exhibit Harvard's primitive treasures, celebrated their new partnership with a massive exhibition of masterpieces of primitive art, with the Peabody's best supplemented by loans from private...
Died. Samuel Hopkins Adams, 87, novelist, turn-of-the-century muckraker, chronicler of the Harding era (Revelry, Incredible Era), master of reminiscence (Grandfather Stories), whose widely varied five-foot shelf also made a large haul in Hollywood (Flaming Youth, It Happened One Night, The Gorgeous Hussy, The Harvey Girls); in Beaufort, S.C. "I'm damned if I want my last novel to appear posthumously," he said, but Tenderloin will not appear until January...