Word: grocers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...message and drama. Irna Phillips, the seminal soap writer who dominated the genre for 40 years, even thought she should forgo her credit to enhance the shows' realism. It was Phillips who anchored the soap to the family and peopled it with professionals. The youngest of an Iowa grocer's ten children, she used her grasp of the powerful mythologies that fill family life to enliven even the most banal script. Four of her shows?Days of Our Lives, As the World Turns, Another World, and The Guiding Light?are still running, though she died...
...native of Rabat and the son of a grocer, Mehdi Ben Barka had been active in politics from the age of 14, when he joined a Moroccan independence movement. For a time he was a tutor to Hassan, then the country's Crown Prince. After Morocco gained its independence, Ben Barka's friendship with Hassan turned sour as he moved leftward in his politics and eventually headed Morocco's political opposition. In 1963, he was elected president of the National Consultative Assembly. Ben Barka later fled into exile in Algeria, and was condemned to death in absentia...
Since 1972, the American impact on Aberdeen has been increasing relentlessly. On Union Street, the shopping center, Dunn & Company, hatters, now carry Stetsons, and Grocer Hamilton Ross stocks Jack Daniel's and Old Grand-Dad next to Glenlivet malt Scotch. For Southern U.S. tastes, there are jalapeno peppers, barbecue sauce and Smucker's blueberry syrup...
...woman about the problems of yachting, and his face lights up when she murmurs wonderingly, "You don't say!" Everyone seems to have forgotten about sex. The point is apotheosized at the end of the film when a little boy pinches Xaviera on the street, and a near-by grocer apologizes, "Excuse him, he's just a boy." Xaviera smiles understandingly, looks straight in the man's eyes, and says softly, "I know, you're all boys. "The grocer melts in dog-like gratitude...
...himself in the days when, known to his friends as "Mooney" or "Momo," he ran the Chicago underworld. His rise in the crime organization built by Al Capone began in his teens on Chicago's West Side, where he was born in 1908, the son of an immigrant grocer. A grade-school dropout, he joined the Chicago Mob as a wheelman, or getaway driver, then graduated to triggerman. Convicted of moonshining in 1939, he managed to turn his four-year sentence to his advantage by cultivating the friendship of Edward Jones, the policy king of Chicago's South...