Word: malabar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ohio's Farmer-Author Louis Bromfield", who has written for every medium short of the head of a pin, turned in his latest copy to a calendar company. The bucolic prose: a description for each of twelve color photographs of his Malabar Farm for a 1955 calendar...
...when Menen was twelve, he was summoned to India by his grandmother, a formidable, high-caste Hindu of Malabar, whose views were quite unlike his English teachers' but equally definite. She received him "formally," i.e., seated on the floor (she considered chairs unspeakably vulgar), with "her breasts completely bare." "A wife who dressed herself above the waist," she explained, "could only be aiming at adultery...
...engorged grossly at a public table, where all & sundry might witness the repellent act of mastication. Nothing, concluded Grandma, could redeem Menen's Irish mother (to whom she always referred flatly as "the Englishwoman," much irking Mrs. Menen). but if Aubrey wanted to become a true son of Malabar and inherit the family wealth, it was not too late. He had only to quaff a goblet of sacred cow's urine and "the sad accident of being born in London" would be forgotten...
...Author-Farmer Louis Bromfield appeared in a Columbus department store to peddle a new brand of fertilizer ("Fertileze") he had helped develop. Tired and jittery after coping with would-be customers, he decided one day was enough ("Too many questions to be answered"), went straight back to Malabar Farm...
...court tennis title, in an upset over U.S. Champion Art Larsen, 6-8, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 8-6; in Chicago. ¶ Victor Seixas, the Spring Lake invitation tennis tournament, over Bill Talbert, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3; in Spring Lake, NJ. ¶The U.S. yacht Malabar XIII, the 4,4OO-mi. international race from Havana to San Sebastian, Spain; in 28 days, arriving 48 hours ahead of its nearest rival. ¶Palestinian, the $57,100 Brooklyn Handicap, one of U.S. racing's oldest stakes (first running: 1887), over Sheilas Reward, by a length...