Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old daughter Angela and son David Jr. race), but he still rides in county point-to-point races on the thoroughbreds he raises on his 700-acre farm, Chequers Manor, near London. A licensed pilot, he often flies his own plane on business trips. In his hunt for new markets all over the globe, he has found he can ship British tractors through the Panama Canal cheaply enough to compete with Midwest tractor makers for California sales. Says he: "We wouldn't try to sell in the Midwest, because those farmers are like our Yorkshiremen-inclined to distrust...
...course is called Humanities 130a. Writer and critic Alfred Kazin will be the lecturer in English 171, Art and Expression in American Literature. Visiting Harvard for the year, Kazin's course will touch on history and philosophy as well as poetry and fiction. The first meeting will be in Hunt...
Grandpa, she said, was Fred Hunt, a radical and a self-appointed friend of the workingman with whom Lucille, then a struggling young movie bit-player, her mother, her brother and a sister were living in 1936. Grandpa's radicalism, she recalled, kept the household in an uproar. When the Balls hired cleaning women, Grandpa drove them away by telling them they weren't being paid enough. But Grandpa was 71 and subject to heart attacks. When he insisted that the Balls register as Communists in 1936, they all did for fear that he would pop an artery...
...Hunt, wife of Texas' multimillionaire oilman, had to take second-night seating.) To his dazzled guests, Mr. Stanley showed $4,500,000 worth of new wares, including $500,000 worth of furs, $350,000 worth of dresses (three Charles James models were priced at $2,000 each), and $3,500,000 Neiman-Marcus' sales soared. Many of the guests had brought lavishly even before the show, just to be sure they had the proper things to wear on opening night...
They go to Mexico to hunt lizards with an eagle, a passion of Thea's that Augie scarcely questions. While they train the eagle, love waxes. But the eagle is a craven; when a lizard bites him, he flaps off. Love wanes as Thea takes to collecting snakes and Augie takes to poker. It dies completely after Augie spends a night with Stella, a beautiful tart...