Word: nones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Airplane Ticket. But none of this explained his death. Police, who hurried to the Institute's 16th floor offices, found few clues. Duggan's brown tweed overcoat and his briefcase (which contained a ticket for an airplane trip to Washington the next day) were placed near his desk. His left overshoe was on the floor; he had been wearing only the right one when he fell. Police found no note...
...Castries, capital of St. Lucia, the Marlin's chattering passengers quickly pass through British customs. They pay a 50?-a-gallon tariff on the French wine in their demijohns, but none on the high-duty Martinique rum hidden in their baskets. Ashore, they barter or sell their wine and rum, then go shopping. St. Lucia has the foodstuffs that bone-poor Martinique has had to do without...
Only the most fastidious of hosts were above it all. Asked whether horse was likely soon to replace whale meat or snoek in Britain, one Soho restaurateur replied: "Madame, we never serve these things. None of them can be tamed to the palate...
...Owsley's Fire Escape." For more than two years Rector Clingman's congregation met in their former Negro church with its old memorial windows ("Given in Memory of Big Boy Howard"). Two potbellied stoves heated it, none too well; Joe Heitzman's boat rental place next door brought confused customers stumbling into church. This spring the congregation moved into a new $200,000 church. The members voted to name it "St. Francis-in-the-Fields"-though not before some friends of Distiller Owsley Brown ("Old Forester" and other brands) had needled him with such suggestions as "Owsley...
...fatally distorts Critic Connolly's frank and intelligent book is his conception of "the artist." To Connolly, art is a fragile thing, and its maker a highly vulnerable esthete. Gide, Proust, Strachey, Rimbaud and other artists of a particularly tortured and susceptible nature are his inspiration; he draws none from more robust types such as Dickens, Trollope, Shaw, Dostoevsky, Thackeray. His artist is a creature entirely different from the rest of humanity-a fact that makes Connolly regard Mr. Shelleyblake's failure as something horrifying and unusual, as though it were not a common fate in all walks...