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Again he takes a familiar, almost mythical theme, turns it upside down and irradiates it with originality. His hero is Morris Bober, an aging Brooklyn grocer who is clinging to solvency by his fingertips. But Morris is also that legendary Jewish figure of misfortune, the schlemiel, whose fate has been told and retold from the Old Testament to Sholom Aleichem. Bobers good intentions gain him nothing but hard knocks. The only dangers he escapes are imaginary ones. Yet, through all his woes, there shines unblinkingly the steady light of a good heart...
...loudspeaker crackled in the crisp mountain air: "The next runner will be Bibbia." On a Swiss hilltop high above St. Moritz, Nino Bibbia, 35, a brawny Italian grocer, buckled on his crash helmet and goggles, carefully checked the heavy leather pads on his knees and elbows. He adjusted steel shields that guarded the back of each hand, then he threw himself onto a sled no bigger (3½ ft.) than a youngster's Flexible Flyer...
...white badge which signifies that they have conquered Cresta and entitles them to a 20% discount at the Kulm Hotel bar. Lately, the Cresta roster has been larded with the names of such middle-class sportsmen as Bibbia, come to compete with nobility in the Alps. Last week, among Grocer Bibbia's fellow sleighriders were such visitors as the Marquis de la Falaise and Liechtenstein's Prince Constantine. Among them, however, there was only one man considered a sure bet to do better than the Italian. He was a Canadian World War II bomber pilot named Doug Connor...
...last week presented a scene more suggestive of the Depression than of the most prosperous year in U.S. history. Lines of citizens edged slowly up to makeshift counters, walked out with armloads of milk, butter, flour, or more than a dozen other food stuffs-all for free. The giveaway grocer: the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
There was much enthusiasm for Foster Furcolo ("symbol of democracy") and his wife (who sat on her mink stole). The high point of his speech came when he noted the high price of food and asked who got the profit. "Does the small grocer get the profit?" "NO!" cried the audience. "Does the farmer get the profit?" "NO!" "Then the question is, who gets the profit." My friend said, "That's a pretty damn good question...