Word: lumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart strings, and frequently succeeds. Its formula is close to foolproof. It selects some outstanding person, then gathers friends and relatives to fill in his life story and pay tribute. Never a bore, the show often verges on questionable taste, just as often raises a skillfully engineered lump in the viewer's throat...
...Remove the hated transaction tax for businesses grossing less than $43,000 yearly, substituting a lump sum payable over a two-year period. For some 1,200,000 small merchants and artisans, this would mean no more inspection, no control, no declarations...
...hire a companion because she thinks it is time for her elderly son to stop following her around. But the Fates know that neither mother nor son has any intention of separating. For 20-odd years, for example, Rosebery has let his mother sweeten his tea with "generous lumps," simply because he knows it makes her happy and he has not had the heart to break it to her that he has lost his taste for sugar. The rest of the household lump it more grudgingly: they yearn to be released from the tyranny of Miranda, but they cannot imagine...
...does not lovely Miss Somersdown give her hand to Mr. Bluster? Is it because Bluster, who is inclined to booze, resembles "a walking lump of drink-produced excrescences?" No, no, it is not that at all. It is because Bluster's courting technique is so blistering-"a cold methodical intriguing piece of secularity, without sympathy or sentiment, talent or tenderness." It cannot be compared to the courting methods of manly Nat, who cries from the bottom of his honest heart: "O speak unreservedly to me, Miss Somersdown; if your heart be free and unfettered ... if there be any means...
...French conversation. In the swank Neuilly and Passy districts of Paris there are many big new apartment buildings where an apartment can be bought for from 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 francs ($28,500), but cannot be rented: the contractors, short of liquid capital, demand a lump sum. In the suburbs, numbers of municipally owned apartment houses have gone up, but they are for functionaries and privileged workers, and the priority list is long. The great mass of French people looking for a home are left to grapple with les corbeaux (the ravens), the landlords; or they must...