Word: mason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taxes are stiffer. As economic inequality tends to diminish, a feeling of opportunity grows. On the streets, fewer Germans glare enviously at expensive automobiles; cheap Volkswagens, Opels and Fords are nearer the public's reach. Already, more Germans own cars than in 1936. In Bad Godesberg, a German mason carped at the new apartment houses for U.S. officials: "I wish we were that well off." Promptly two of his colleagues chipped in: "Don't worry. We will...
Alamadi's untouchables are treated first, caste Hindus second. Last Sunday, a 35-year-old mason named Sriramulu showed a foul-looking ulcer on his ankle, explained: "First there was an abscess. When it became very painful, I cut it with a penknife. This did not cure it. The village barber told me to apply lime and tobacco. It got worse and I tried a local remedy, covering up the sore with mud. That did not do any good, either." The student put on a sulfa dressing, told Sriramulu he was lucky not to have developed tetanus...
Welcome Back. Jim Duff was barely settled in the Senate when he realized he had made a bad mistake. Even during the campaign, while Duff thundered against Grundy's "privileged-few" brand of Republicanism, Judge Fine was meeting secretly with Grundy's faithful lieutenant, G. Mason Owlett, in a room in Philadelphia's Ritz-Carlton. A few days after the governor's inauguration, Mason Owlett reappeared in Harrisburg. In other days, Owlett was the man who brought to the governor's office a budget prepared by the Grundy machine. Duff had ordered him out. Governor...
...dominated Oxford Street, one of the city's greatest shopping centers; its aggressive merchandising and flamboyant promotions have changed the pace of British retailing. Second largest store in London,* Selfridge's has little of the snob appeal of its competitors. Said one regular customer: "In Fortnum & Mason's you feel ill at ease without a mink, at Harrods you feel uncomfortable without a hat, but at Selfridge's you feel at home in a cotton dress and sandals." It comes closer to being a big U.S. department store than any other shop in London...
...said: "We're moving into our new offices, upstairs." They marched into the rooms of General Manager Eric Drake, who had gone to Basra, Iraq, 40 miles away, because he feared arrest on trumped-up "sabotage" charges. In Drake's office, they confronted Assistant General Manager Alec Mason and five other top British executives. "Ah, gentlemen," said Mason, "you have come to talk with us?" "No," said Daftary, "we've just come to move into Mr. Drake's office since he's not coming back." Said Mason to a reporter as he walked out: "Well...