Word: noonday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Socked for a noonday sum ($70,000) by British income-tax revenooers when he got homesick and visited England two years ago, Playwright Noel Coward scuttled back to the West Indies. Last week, his status as a loyal but nonresident British subject established by a two-year exile, Man-Without-a-Problem Coward (he will not have to pay the Inland Revenue taxes on income earned outside England if he stays away at least six months a year) blithely spirited himself back home, disdained to talk of crass cash: "I really do get rather bored. I find the talk about...
...individually air conditioned, the hollow building is designed to be cool on its own. It is one room deep all around for through ventilation, with a veranda-corridor rimming the interior court. The roof is a wooden parasol. Jalousies with mahogany slats protect the windows from noonday heat and glare. The entire mahogany structure literally comes...
...Claypoole's footling experiments blew up and cost Lovey her sight. Red-haired Lovey soon finds that she is a misfit as a martyr. "Being a mean child," she explains, "I hadn't the temperament for it." While mother works as a nurse and father, as Noonday Ned the Oldtime Fiddler, saws away at the local radio station, Lovey is left to the untender mercies of sour old grandma, who tries zealously to clothe the girl in blue cheesecloth and Christian resignation. But Lovey wields her cross like a blunt instrument, tears up her Braille primer, tongue-lashes...
Targett yesterday said that the noonday sermon will be on the race issue and that a special clergyman is being sought to deliver the sermon. He expects that the appointment of a minister for the day of prayer will be announced within a few days...
JONATHAN SWIFT (508 pp.) - John Middleton Murry-Noonday Press...