Word: mr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...untold millions migrated to California in search of the Golden State dream [July 18], we longtime California residents began to realize that our beautiful state was being devastated by out-of-state foreigners. So we started an unspoken and subliminal campaign to discourage people from relocating here. Thank you, Mr. DeVoss, for informing the rest of the world that California truly is a miserable place to live...
...think Mr. DeVoss, like so many foreigners, was expecting some idealistic Utopian state. If "the essence of California does not travel well," why am I looking out my window at a line of out-of-state camper...
...find his pet and supplies a form poster that can be individualized with a description of the loved one (Keane recommends a minimum $50 reward). For $100 plus expenses he will devote himself exclusively to finding one pet, and with the Irregulars will scour a neighborhood as thoroughly as Mr. Holmes on the trail of Professor Moriarty...
Unlike his near namesake of the old-time radio serial, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, the self-styled "Tracer of Missing Pets" is not infallible. He is hampered by police indifference, even when he can identify a petnaper. (On occasion, Keane says, he has come close to having his head blown off by professional criminals.) And, he notes "finding a lost bird in Oakland is like finding one particular flea on a Saint Bernard." Nonetheless, his ten-month-old business is prospering, and he has been approached to lend his nom de chien to a movie about Sherlock Bones...
...plucked from the obscurity of a TV soap opera for the role, is getting $250,000. But then, of course, there is more of Reeve than there was when he was signed. In London, where the interiors are being shot, he trained on weights with a former Mr. Universe and added 20 lbs. to his 6 ft. 4 in., including 2 in. to his chest and another 2 in. to his biceps...