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Late at night in the House of Commons, when the freshness has gone from the air, and the lights shine dully on bald pates, weariness creeps into the usually keen blue eyes of the man sitting alone on the government front bench. His blue suit crumples. The thinning blond hair is no longer so carefully brushed across the balding scalp, and every now & then he coughs chestily. He fidgets. His left hand rubs slowly over his cheeks, reaches for a handkerchief to wipe his plumpish fate. Or his right forefinger goes round and upward to scratch...
Lessons for Children. Author de Beauvoir is at her brightest and best in describing the sort of exasperation that takes a keen-witted, methodical man when he tries to get the better of a girl who lives stubbornly by whim and base instinct. The more Pierre tries to discipline Xaviere, the more apt she is to turn up at the wrong place at the wrong time, or to keep an appointment for an intellectual talk at a sidewalk cafe loaded down with a bag of shrimp and bananas...
...perfect timing with a bronco," says Bill Linderman, 33, the champion All-Around Cowboy of the U.S., "it's no more strain than rowing a boat." Before keen-eyed rodeo fans in San Antonio last week, Champion Linderman gave a demonstration...
...matter involved WORD radio station call-letters. I got KIND Of a KICK OUt of WICH Calls WERE included. I'd like to KNOW the KOSY KOVE or KASM your KREW uses to WORK in. They're missing plenty. KAST a KWIK look at the KEEN KROP I KROW about. I had to WRAK my WIRY KOKO until it was a WERI WREC and hard to KEEP KOOL...
...once on safari, Hemingway met and began to admire an African bush pilot named Roy Marsh. In a recent letter to a New York friend, Mrs. Hemingway described Hemingway's all-out conversion to the air age: "Poppa is so keen on scouting in the Ndege [Swahili for airplane] at 600 or something shillings a half day [about $84], which includes bumps and rolls and swooping down on the deck and wing-brushing the chulu hills, that we will shortly have no money left except for gin and cabbage...