Word: interlocutor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five years ago last September a young graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy strode into the Freshman Dean's Office, and announced that after a week of surveying America's oldest university he was distinctly displeased. His interlocutor asked him when he planned to leave. "Tomorrow afternoon," he answered...
...student and a married woman, the woman and her husband, the husband and a little cocotte, the cocotte and a poet, the poet and an actress, the actress and a count, and the count and the original prostitute. This merry-go-round of sex is attended by an aloof interlocutor who explains that he represents the audience, and it revolves to the tune of a haunting waltz by Oscar Strauss...
...ravines and mountains. She told the surprised Haitians about the dispensary and the need to come immediately when they were sick or hurt. She told them about the school. And wherever she could she would wage a persistent Protestant war against the voodoo gods, Papa Legba (who is interlocutor between men and the gods), Maitresse Erzulie (of love) and Damballa Wedo (the good serpent of the sky), and against the houngans (priests) and mambos (priestesses) who served them...
...Interlocutor: "All this country needs is a little water and some good people." Mr. Bones: "That's all hell needs, too" For months, as high winds scourged their dry and drifting acres and gritty clouds hazed the sun, the farmers of the new dust bowl had prayed for rain. Last week black storm clouds churned over land that had known drought for four long years-over west Texas and the gasping Panhandle, over southern and western Oklahoma, over eastern New Mexico-and the water came drumming down. It rained for days. In many an area, the drought-stricken found...
...Pogo's plight. They know that for week atfer week he has had to listen to a story about Hadle & Gristle, furry godmommas, alligator-shaped princesses and whatnot. They also know that Pago tried to escape yesterday--pleading an appointment in Lapland but that he could not because his interlocutor his shirt to the seat...