Word: manus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Call me Manus. It's simpler that way. And allow me to introuce myself further: I am a palmist, a fortune-teller, a trained, traveled reader of the past, present, and future. I also study at Harvard, but that is only a side-line, for my real interest in life is meeting people in restaurants, coffee-shops, and other places around Cambridge to let them in on a little of what I have learned as a fortune-teller...
...approach to life, but it is a fascinating form of knowledge that more and more people are becoming interested in. It gives them food for thought and a fairly clear picture of what the future holds. It is not always easy to find me, but if you ask for Manus and are able to locate me, I'll gladly tell you more about...
...alert reporter noticed an unusual gap in the always busy schedule of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, 54. It was blank from May 9 to 31. True, confirmed Press Secretary Robert L. Mc-Manus, he knew of no "official activities" for the Governor between those dates...
...Hard Life's crazy old man is Mr. Collopy, a sixtyish sack of Biblical malapropisms whose ruling passion is a campaign to get the Dublin City Corporation to install public rest rooms for women. The book's narrator-a boy named Finnbar- and his older brother Manus come to live with the old man as orphans aged five and ten. In nightly colloquy at Collopy's, the boys listen as a forbearing Jesuit priest, Father Fahrt, is plied with Kilbeggan whisky and tried by his host's assaults on the Society of Jesus. "The Order," grunts...
Mixing mild parody with whirlwind farce, O'Brien quickly has Manus (referred to simply as "The Brother") escape to England and there grow rich by founding a bogus correspondence academy. Sample subjects: Egyptology, Cure of Boils, Panpendarism, Sausage Making in the Home. Collopy, dying from a dosage of one of The Brother's patent medicines, embarks on the inevitable pilgramage to Rome. His grotesquely comic death there after a burlesque papal audience is the kind of thing that even the late Ole Olsen and Chick Johnson could hardly have coped with...