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...parting was sweet sorrow, for to each man the paymaster handed severance money that averaged 10,000 bolivianos ($250). At the prevailing 50? a day, that was almost a year and a half's pay, a lump sum greater than most Indians had ever seen. There would be drinking and feasting in the company's bars before they went back to work...
Perry Como joined the pelted crooners of history. Rudy Vallee had been struck by a grapefruit (1931); Frank Sinatra by an egg (1944); Crooner Como, deep in Dream, Dream,Dream at a Chicago theater, was awakened last week by a hunk of hard candy. His injury: a lump on the noggin...
Tetsu Katayama, Japan's overworked Premier, was ordered by his doctors to see if rest wouldn't help that "nervous lump" on his head...
Next day Judge French brought home a lump of clay for Daniel to practice on, and for seven years Daniel practiced diligently. When the family moved to Concord, dashing May Alcott (Louisa's sister), who had studied sculpture in Paris, gave him a few pointers, and Neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson too was moved to smile on Daniel's work. That was enough. Writes Margaret: "With that fine conviction in their own capacity to produce the best . . . Concord commissioned its youthful representative of the plastic art to model a statue of a Minute...
...time when the big stick has become an atom bomb, it is dangerous for the United States to lump foreign policy and domestic political-economic problems together in one pocket. We have been doing just that regarding our relations with the Soviet Union and with home-baked Communists. America may oppose Russian expansion towards the Dardanelles or Middle East oil, but we cannot do so simply because Russia is a Communist state and we dislike the American Communists. Similarly, it is a fallacy to oppose American Communists simply because we disapprove of Russian foreign policy...