Word: literality
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When they leave, Van Dyke says: "The next time we're invited to a liter ary dinner party, will you say to me, 'Let's stay home and can some plums'?" Wow. That line gets such a laugh that even the set falls on the floor. Van Dyke does it every time. Like the night he said, "Without my thumbs I couldn't type." Or that other time, when he told his wife: "If you keep looking that good in the morning, I may have to switch to an afternoon newspaper...
...known for decades as "the car of royalty." Designed primarily to be chauffeur-driven, it has an electrically controlled glass partition between front and rear seats, and the doors open to a full 90° angle, revealing a concealed step for easy entrance and exit. A 4½-liter V-8 engine provides a top speed of 114 m.p.h. The price...
...fifth or one-fourth of a gill.* But will be forced to display a sign saying clearly which measure they use. The greatest spur to thoroughgoing reform will undoubtedly be British membership in the European Common Market. In time, Englishmen may even order their mild-and-bitter by the liter, and pay in decimal currency-but few last week would bet a fluid dram that they would live...
...Public Health Service found that milk in New Orleans registered 530 micromicrocuries* of radioactive iodine per liter. In other Southern cities the level was nearly as high...
Music has long dominated the European summer air-almost any city, hamlet or two-liter spa has some sort of festival, and new ones are started every year. But today there is an increasing shift in emphasis to the drama. From the indoor stages of Scandinavia to the open-air théâtres antiques of Roman Provence, there is a heady international mosaic. Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes, for example, will be done in Lallan Scots accents at Edinburgh (hoot, monsieur...