Word: grocer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often resembles that of a powdered egg-a dull, sad mockery of the fresh article. Nearly eight years after World War II's end, law-abiding, breakfast-loving Britons must still endure the powdered egg or queue for the real thing in strictly rationed quantities at the corner grocer's. Last week, Food Minister Gwilyn Lloyd George, Tory son of Britain's World War I Liberal Prime Minister, brightened their hopes by announcing that by early spring egg-rationing would come to an end. "The fact of the matter is," he told the House of Commons, "that...
...bring our countenance back into a semblance of normalcy." The dominant feeling among Democrats was surprise. The abundant talk in the last few weeks before E-day about a switch to Stevenson had not prepared them for what was, in fact, an overwhelming switch to Eisenhower. A New York grocer named Vincent Goluch took it hardest, turning in five false fire alarms the morning after election (as he turned in the sixth, police arrested him). In San Antonio, a Democratic boarder, annoyed by the triumphant smirks of his Republican landlady, set fire to her house. "I just didn...
Cold Comfort. In Everett, Mass., Grocer Fred Bailey, locked in his freezer room by a pretty blonde customer and robbed of $60, remarked, after being rescued 20 minutes later: "She seemed to be such a very nice person...
Sickly little Gilbert Godard, a grocer's assistant, did not impress his neighbors in Chaumont (near Dijon) as the kind of man who might make a pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin at Lourdes. Twice married, once divorced, he had never been seen at Mass. Nonetheless, it looked to a lot of pious folk in Chaumont last week as if Gilbert Godard, pilgrim to Lourdes, had been granted a miracle...
...Klasen was a thin, gawky cockney child born to a Danish father and an Irish mother within sound of London's Bow Bells. The most exciting times of her childhood were the nighttime flights from creditors with the family's scanty possessions piled on to a friendly grocer's cart...