Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter long, while Communist armies moved relentlessly down from the north, U.S. businessmen had gathered at the long, polished bar of the Shanghai American Club for cocktails, a few rolls of liar's dice and endless conversation on the one question paramount in the mind of every Shanghailander: What would happen when the Communists took over? Many had thought that there might be a change for the better: the Communists would at least bring "order." By last week, most U.S. businessmen believed they had their answer. It was not so rosy as most of them had expected...
...sisters move in on and eventually take possession of the converted-stable studio of a dithery painter (Elsa Lan-chester). They also wheedle the deed to a valuable piece of real estate from a notorious gangster (Thomas Gomez), and almost drive a songwriting neighbor (Hugh Marlowe) out of his mind before he capitulates. In their childlike faith, they brush aside every staggering obstacle in their path. When things look really tough, they say a prayer to St. Jude, patron of the impossible...
...Emily." She turned her head . . . towards him helplessly . . . Dorset said in his sultry voice, his voice of a purring tiger: "I am going to kiss you, Emily. Do you mind?" She felt herself dissolving . . . His eyes, clear and ice-grey between their long lashes, were full of moonlight...
Twilight contains just about everything that an adolescent mind could want, in cluding characters such as Lady Orabella Sax, Arethusa Lever, Captain Elias Wild-blood and Alden Galahad Paget. What's more, Author Steen lays bare the very sur face of their natures: "Superbly nude, [Dorset Flood] lounged elegantly on the window sill"; "Plump and glossy as a young calf, there was something in [Polly Bowling] that vibrated...
Cardus clerked for an insurance firm, learned cricket beside a rubbish dump and set himself a course of reading that would have floored an Oxford don. After listening to a light opera one evening, he discovered that his mind "retained music as the kidneys secrete water." (Now, after reading in bed at night, Cardus switches off the lamp, selects some favorite composition from his head and conducts an imaginary concert before falling asleep...