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...precious as life, it was a great event; Psofios announced he would sink a well. Old Golfis, who was too poor to drill a well of his own, feared that all the water under his land would be drained off by his neighbor's well, that the meager springs on his own plot would dry up. For days, he brooded. Then he decided on a plan to ruin Psofios...
Policemen and vigilant police dogs. Meager rations of warm food were ladled out from 3,500 field kitchens. Many of the demonstrators looked undernourished and tired. Many were sick; several typhoid cases were reported. Yet most of them thoroughly enjoyed the outing...
...heavens as did his ancestors and looking down triumphantly upon the world beneath," Taylor once wrote, "the contemporary artist has been reduced to the status of a flat-chested pelican, strutting upon the intellectual wastelands and beaches, content to take whatever nourishment he can from his own too meager breast...
Voice staffers often complain that "policy guidance" from Washington is slow, that they lack the funds to do a first-rate job (in 1950 the U.S. State Department spent less than a third of its meager propaganda budget of $34 million on broadcasting). Actually, what the Voice needs above all is not more money or more memoranda from Washington, but simply better writing, sharper thinking, and plenty of blue pencils to cut the dull stretches which still pervade too many of its programs...
After Miracle, Actress Hutton got choosy about her scripts for the first time. As her stature in Hollywood grew, so did her qualms over her meager education. When De Sylva asked her what she wanted for Christmas one year, she asked for good books, got a set of 100 classics, and actually started reading them. She also became irked with her "blonde bombshell" publicity and engaged Margaret ("Maggie") Ettinger, one of Hollywood's higher-powered press-agents, to give her more tone. Maggie introduced her to the right people and schooled her in how to get on with them...