Word: lots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jacob Moerland down from The Hague to open a casino in the vacant house, for the benefit of Dutchmen who are not allowed to gamble in their own country. Later, an ambitious Dutchman named Herman Bernhard showed up, opened a competing Benelux Casino complete with free drinks, a parking lot and twelve croupiers. By 1954, five casinos were operating-though not always smoothly. At one point, Bernhard had a moat dug around Moerland's Woodside Club to prevent customers from either going in or coming out. Moerland, who now owned a piece of his own in the disputed...
Sooi, the man who started it all, claimed this as a great victory. "I am fighting for an idealistic case," he declared. "Everybody says that I make a lot of money. Anybody who says that to my face will find my bloodhounds after him." But what if the International Court of Justice decides that Lots 91 and 92 are Belgian as Sooi claims? "If Holland loses the case," says Burgomaster de Grauw, "it means that inhabitants paid taxes to the wrong country, that some people were never born, and that others died quite illegally. The complications will be enormous...
...from the New World; he is young and wants to grapple in a modern manner with the problems facing the church today. He wants to see that we don't go on plodding along the road we have always been plodding along. There's been a lot of fluttering in the dovecots over Bayne's appointment, but it's mostly with pleasure at the thought of something new and different being about to be tried in the church...
...Bosley Crowther of the Times is his guide. If Bosley says it's trash, he may easily pass it up. Or if he has to use it (and he admits he has to use a lot of pure crocks), he'll play it in the Sunday-to-Tuesday slot...
...master's usual fans. He writes about the short story, the novels of Goethe, a Hindu swami he once met, three French writers who kept personal and controversial journals, and about the life and writings of Dr. Tillotson, a 17th century Archbishop of Canterbury. A doubtful lot, on the face of it, but Maugham has the easy knack of wringing interest out of all of them. Virtually all of his information is from other books (which he freely admits), and he says very little that is original. Yet the effect is that of a good conversationalist quietly voicing some...