Word: fulls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salter insists on deliberate use of the word / as much as possible (his book is full of it). Mock modesty is all nonsense: "Express agreement when you are praised." Finally, "Don't plan. Live for the next minute . . . and tomorrow will take care of itself...
...Langs, who invented a stick-on, strapless bra named "Poses," but came a cropper when he tried to market it (TIME, Aug. 29), sold out to Textron Inc. The price: $70,000 in cash and the prospect of more in royalties. With the bright merchandising idea, Textron also got full title to the job of soothing irate Poses' customers who are griping over shoddy workmanship and non-delivery of orders...
...because both Henry Yorke and pseudonymous Henry Green love to court new experiences and make fresh experiments. Since his proletarian years, Henry Yorke has graduated into big business: he is now managing director, in London, of his old Birmingham firm, H. Pontifex & Sons. In World War II, he worked full time as a fire-fighting "ranker," i.e., enlisted man in the hazardous National Fire Service...
...went up to Mam-selle's boudoir to give her a long bong jour . . ."). Charley alone is enough to show why Novelist Elizabeth Bowen considers Henry Green "one of the living novelists whom I admire most." But Housemaid Edie, who builds their furtive little affair into a full-blown storm of love and wedding bells (in Britain), is an even more subtle and profound creation, warm as toast towards her Charley but cold and calculating as a stockbroker in getting him under the lock & key of matrimony. Cobwebs over Eire. Two such masterly characters deserve a masterly stage...
Despite the defeat, there is at least a bright note in the fact that all Crimson injuries stayed healed. Munro's squad should be at full strength when it visits Amherst on Columbus...