Word: glosses
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...George Gloss, a thickset, scholarly-looking bookseller who owns and runs the Brattle, is waging a desperate final-hour battle to save the archaic Sears Crescent, a cluster of buildings which houses his and other historic book stalls...
...adventure has gone from the modern book store," the Brattle's Gloss complains. "You might just as well sit home and order by catalogue." The bargain prices which make books available to those who could not otherwise buy the intrigue and the romance of antiquarian shop, Gloss contends, make the second-hand book stall of special consideration...
...Gloss, who has become the historian of the Cornhill, has vanced several proposals for the of the most important in the area. The most ambitions suggested, proposes the removal of main structures to the Fanuell in Dock Square which would constituted an historic reservation to that of Williamsburg, Virgin...
...thus far all appeals to the have been in vain. Gloss is now a letter writing campaign at the Boston Redevelopment in the hopes that a stay of will be rendered...
...them) that descendants of the great Mayan race. What a Zinacanteco? He speaks a language known as "Tzotzil." He has developed over centuries a way of life strongly resistant to any inroads of Mexican or Western civilization. Even Catholicism has failed to do more than lay a slight gloss of saints and churches over his old, basic Indian religion. Moreover, a Zinacanteco manages his own local government and possesses his own lands. He has his own community...