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...wild animals is gone; and Old Man Hearst likes to watch his children and grandchildren, and Miss Davies' in-laws, enjoying San Simeon's simpler pleasures, like swimming in the massive pool. The women of the household go in for homey pursuits like crocheting bedspreads or making lamp shades...
...girls' octet, it was time for "remarks." The state Superintendent, at the peak of his form, called Miss Lizzie "an honored member of an honored profession." Then they gave Miss Lizzie the presents everybody had chipped in to buy: a walnut desk, an armchair, an ottoman, a lamp and a radio. For good measure the board of Education tossed in a little brass schoolbell, which Miss Lizzie rang to end the banquet. It was also almost, not quite, the end to her 50 years of teaching: she plans to retire...
...Teletalk intercommunication unit (known commonly as a "squawk-box"), an electronic dictating machine, an electric razor with door mirror, an electric cigaret light' er, a telephone mounted on a pull-out slide with an automatic index, an extra electrical outlet convenient for fan, heater, Silex or therapeutic lamp...
...wrestling summary: 121-pound--Vinton (A) defeated Waddell (fall; 128-pound--Lamp (A) defeated Nutt (fall); 136-pound--Linn (A) defeated Currier; 145-pound--Sawyer (A) defeated Harris (fall); 155-pound Hardenburgh (A) defeated Perry; 165-pound--Rogers (H) defeated Ordeman (fall); 175-pound--Beber (H) defeated Waring; Unlimited--Houston (H) defeated Wight (fall...
...impatient, but at 80, having bossed the Macloud household for 50-odd years, she knew a trick or two. That evening in St. Louis, while waiting for her eldest, son to call, she wore her grey silk dress and looked as calm as Whistler's mother. The lamp over her chair was lit, but her eyes were closed and her head was tilted back, "as if some beneficent rays were reaching her from the 60-watt bulb...