Word: fountain
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...commenced quite in a small way," said Daniel Macmillan when he and his brother Alexander began to publish books in 1843. "If the business should prosper. . . ." It did. And having become one of the world's greatest, richest publishing houses, Macmillan & Co. commissioned Macmillan Author Charles Morgan (The Fountain) to write a history of its first 100 years. Recently published in England (U.S. publication this spring), The House of Macmillan is an entertaining story of the book world's liveliest centenarian...
...Italy's Adriatic flank. War had wrecked the terraced cluster of dwellings, scattered their brick walls, shattered their oaken rafters. Through the debris, toward Allied soldiers gathered at the municipal piazza hurried five Italians. One of them paused to wash his hands in the piazza's muddy fountain. Another cried...
...fountain was the speaker's son, like him small, wiry, sharp-eyed and swathed in a black cape with a ragged fur collar. The son reached into a pocket and brought out the dog tags-thin oval bits of metal in leather cases. The five men were proud of the trophies. Their story tumbled out in pidgin Eng lish learned 15 years ago when they worked on the Pennsylvania Railroad...
Three weeks before, the Germans had ordered the 4,000 villagers out of town. Then the Germans proceeded to blow the place to bits. The destruction was savage, efficient. Only the piazza fountain, a gift from villagers who had emigrated to the U.S. seemed to have escaped...
Scuttlebutt: believe it or not, a drinking fountain (so the rumor goes...