Word: merlis
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...Mer' Christmas," barked the man, between snatches of music. "Mer' Christmas." He blocked Fester's way. He put out his cupped hand. Fester ran up the street; it was so cold he needed to run to keep warm. At the corner he looked back and saw no one. Through the window of the Bick a girl with long, straight hair (a swimming instructor in a Dorchester Y) watched him cross Mass...
...Glitter. Guarded by bank-vault-type doors, electric-eye burglar alarms and "footmen" whose blue-and-silver waistcoats bulge with shoulder-holster Lugers, the new Schatzkam-mer operates with little fanfare. "Too much publicity," explains Director Hans Thoma, "might only attract some fool Rififi who might take a crack at the wealth. The public should come gradually, not because they are intrigued by the glitter, but because of the artistic pleasure it gives to see so much precious beauty assembled...
...usual stratum of nightclub-blue smoke rises healthily out of sight. Right now, though the tinkly quiet has vanished, extra chairs have been packed in, and jam ming crowds nightly try to fight their way past the velvet rope- for the smoke is on the performing floor. Ethel Mer man is there...
...earls of Home were imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle for political crimes. Three others were beheaded. One mer ry laird of Home, says the 14th Earl, used to invite his neighbors to dinner and, "having wined them and dined them until they were under the table, would then proceed to acquire their property. Then he would hang them by the neck to a tree outside the bedroom window to remind himself of, as he used to say, 'the danger of overindulgence.' " Home adds: "The English always say that we Scots retarded the advance of civilization. If we had known...
When Jackie told the Secret Service man of her pains, he sprinted for the farmhouse, phoned the Kennedy sum mer home on Squaw Island and asked that someone summon Dr. John Walsh, Jackie's obstetrician, who was "vacationing" on the Cape, while actually on stand-by in the event that Jackie's time might come ahead of schedule. Then the Secret Service man rounded up Caroline and John, took them to the car and sped off for Squaw Island, eight miles away...