Word: heap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home turns out to be a heap of rubble. Readers of conventional war fiction scarcely need to be told what comes next. Ernst stumbles across Elisabeth, a twenty-year-old with "high-arched brows, dark eyes, and mahogany-colored hair that flowed in a restless wave...
...take a heap of money...
...first engagement . . . and falls to sleep where he is immediately chased through long, dark thickets by a Mrs. Mabel Frankincense Mehaffey, with a tray of martinis and lyrics. And there goes the other happy poet bedraggledly back to New York which struck him all of a sheepish never-sleeping heap at first but which seems to him now, after the ulcerous rigors of a lecturer's spring, a haven cozy as toast, cool as an icebox, and safe as skyscrapers...
...first book, How to Be a Good Communist, introduced him in 1939 as a prime dialectician. Married: twice (first wife killed by Kuomintang troops in 1934). Children: a son and daughter of whom it has been said that, when they meet with Liu, "it is like throwing together a heap of steel slabs." Characteristics: gaunt and tall, with sharp features and piercing eyes; rarely smiles, has what his second wife calls "an inexorable heart...
Love Affair (Felicia Sanders; Columbia). An intense lament with a fine tune, sung in a rough-tender style that puts Songstress Sanders right on top of the vocal heap...