Word: misters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggest that B. M. Baruch, elder statesman, has come to be B.M.B., elder bootlegger? I have known Mister Bernie for quite a spell . . . he is still a veritable devil with the girls, and . . . completely without probity when he describes his ability at shooting quail, and I know for sure he cheats at Canasta . . . Mr. Baruch's favorite statement, which he started using on President Wilson and has not abandoned since, is: 'What are the facts?' I hang him with his own slogan. 'What are the facts, Mr. Baruch? How did the booze get in your...
...with Caught in the last week of 1950) was a fine original novel about youth and old age, written in a style close to poetry and filled with insights into human incongruities. Joyce Gary proved again that he has the richest comic sense among living writers in English. His Mister Johnson, the story of a young African clerk who wanted too much from life, was just about the most satisfying novel of the U.S. year, though first published in England in 1939. Nancy Mitford's gift for cultivated malice came shining through in The Blessing, a comedy of Franco...
Arrive in front of Jordan Marsh at 3:32 p.m. Many people watching wax Santa Claus-trying to paint "Santa's workshop" sign in window. Loudspeaker tells me I'd "better watch out." Man grabs me by the arm. "He' ya, Mister. This li'I doll'll dance for you just like she's dancing for me. Only a quawta...
...Mister Johnson, by Joyce Gary. A fresh and exuberant story of the rise & fall of a Nigerian career man; close to Author Gary's brilliant best (TIME...
...Mister Johnson, by Joyce Gary. A fresh and rarely exuberant story of the rise & fall of a Nigerian career man; close to Author Gary's brilliant best (TIME...