Word: loafing
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...that is just what the N.A.M. and the Chamber want. Reason: they object to half a dozen minor Taft-Hartley revisions, e.g., requiring employers to report to the Labor Department all financial dealings with labor unions or labor officials. As for reforming unions, the bill is only "half a loaf," argues the N.A.M., apparently forgetting what half a loaf is proverbially better than...
Suntanned, swim-suited tourists from New York, who can fly to San Juan for $45, clack in their clogs through the lobbies of the Caribe Hilton and the new San Juan Intercontinental hotels. Twenty miles west of the capital, richer visitors will soon be able to loaf at Laurance Rockefeller's Dorado Beach Hotel, now abuilding, and golf under Pro Ed Dudley at the Robert Trent Jones course. "There is a great atmosphere of construction, vitality, change," says Roger Baldwin, who advises Puerto Rico on civil liberties, "and a great sense of leadership...
...travesty on Opening Numbers, she imitates a Stately Homeowner on TV, lady choristers at the Albert Hall, assorted cockneys and Yankees, a harebrained cultist and a cheery nursery-school teacher. Mimic Grenfell's satiric range is narrow, her lunges make mere surface wounds, and half a Grenfell loaf is better than all of one. But her art, if thin, is pure, and it is an art-one that flowered most richly with the late Ruth Draper. To call Joyce Grenfell a superior Draper's assistant is not faint praise...
...debunking his own art. In his novel Philip, he wrote: "When I think how this very line, this very word, which I am writing represents money, I am lost in a respectful astonishment...I am paid sixpence per line. With [these last 67 words] I can buy a loaf, a piece of butter, a jug of milk, a modicum of tea-actually enough to make breakfast for the family." Such digressions helped to conceal the sweat and effort that Thackeray put into his work. "I can see him pointing now with his finger," wrote his daughter Anny...
...things are going these days, it's the optimist who thinks bread will cost $2 a loaf within five years. The pessimist says it will cost 2 rubles...