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Jennifer, like Ishbel MacDonald, was stocky, well-scrubbed, healthy, plain. Like Ishbel, Jennifer had a Famous Father, whose daily lookout she was, with no watches shared. Father, widowered and only-daughtered, was a famed novelist whose books were appreciated by the few, unread by the many, abhorred by the clergy. Jennifer and Father lived in London as in a sheltered treadmill: she ran the house, took his dictation, typed his manuscripts, chased from the quiet street the occasional catastrophe of an organ-grinder. Suddenly one day Father brought home a pretty young wife, several years younger than Jennifer. With...
First to see the iceberg dead ahead of the superliner Glamorland was Able Seaman James Morgan, lookout in the crow's nest. He saw it too late. At the same moment: Priggish, successful First Class Passanger Thurlow Burton was finishing his expensive dinner in the grill. Waiter Guiseppe Ziemssen was hovering for the tip. Beautiful but harebrained Mrs. Gilpin was sulking in her cabin. Her would be lover Major Wandrell was looking for her. Moses Vierstein, cloak & suit man, second class passenger, lay in his bunk wondering why he was not a success. All of them felt...
...influence their retention if conditions warrant their being broken. But in this case there seems to be no immediate reason for breaking with the past--especially at Harvard. The cries from many of the other colleges seem mainly to have been issued by youthful iconoclasts ever on the lookout for a change...
...against death-by-violence as symbolized by the tiger. Once the orangutans loot the hunter's hut but for the most part they are mannerly, sagacious, and amusing. With them in the cast are all sorts of other monkeys; they swarm across rivers, run up vines, keep a lookout in a tree and in the end are a deciding factor in the triumphant campaign against the tigers. Rango is intelligently thought out and beautifully photographed-a scientific document and a work of art at the same time, far more valuable though less exciting than the graphic Trader Horn. Best...
...When things go wrong he stops work and plays tennis. Sometimes he works all night. He listens to a great lot of advice, disregards most of it. Sometimes his spasmodic working habits bewilder his subordinates. To ease their minds he has instructed a special studio watchman to keep a lookout for his car and swiftly warn the workers of its approach. Thus laggards will not lose their self-respect by having the boss catch them in a poker game...