Word: messe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...right, here's the bit; we've got a client with about ten refrigerated warehouses full of pork sausages. He can't ship them overseas now that the waterfront's tied up, and it looks like the whole bloody mess is going to go stale if we can't sell them right here. This is a tough town to sell pork sausages in. We are bucking years of tradition. What...
There was another way of looking at the mess of bodies, tears and coal dust up in Springhill, Nova Scotia last week. The casket trade in the Maritime Provinces, which are economically depressed, rose sharply. The coffee-donut market was brisk as newspapermen arrived from the city. (There are no saloons in Nova Scotia.) The telephone company worked overtime to string up extra lines so the press could transmit its wirephoto of Canada living in the early 19th century. That picture was about the only good thing that ever came out of Springhill...
...expensive antique shops of the fashionable Faubourg Saint-Honoré-in fact, canny antique dealers work both sides of the street. Sitting in their shop armchairs, slowly polishing their copper casseroles and warming pans, the dealers are well aware of the old truth that the more of a mess surrounds an object, the more a customer thinks he has made a find...
...Nasser's Suez "victory," were the 385 ships that his Suez Canal Authority shuttled through the canal last week with smooth efficiency. Good operation of the ditch is now taken for granted, even by those who predicted so darkly back in 1956 that the Egyptians would make a mess...
...down' the houses of their members and use the salvaged brick, tile and timber to build communal barracks. In Honan two-thirds of the province's 10 million children are now being cared for in communal nurseries, and in some of the older communes "people's mess halls" have already become, the Reds boast, "almost the only place one can eat." Instead of turning to his wife when his trousers need mending, the good commune member now takes his problem to the "sewing brigade." The result, declares Peking, is that 20 million women in seven provinces...