Word: old
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fourteen prospective buyers, including a big insurance firm and MIT, are already bidding for the old headquarters. Announcement of the sale will come as soon as appraisers can assess the value. Once the new owner moves in, there's a good chance he will be able to hire back some of the help Lever will soon be dismissing...
Maugham admirers had a right to expect that, with the maestro so well set and devil-may-care, his personal Notebook would be as breezy as, say, the Autobiography of Anthony Trollope (in which the old fox hunter posthumously appalled his huge public by admitting with a gay cackle that money had always been his muse). But where other note-makers have nailed their colors to the mast and let their hair down to the last soiled lovelock, urbane Maugham has preferred to soak his colors in bleach and pin his hair in a tight bun. His Notebook (the whittlings...
Stewart also manages a poignant conclusion: one by one the old American survivors die off, and Ish, an antique god whose scepter is a hammer, is left alone with the new generation. One day through the fog of years he sees a half-naked savage standing respectfully before him. "Are you happy?" he quavers. "Things are as they are," the savage replies in puzzlement, "and I am part of them." The Last American passes his scepter to the savage, and dies, murmuring with the grasses and the winds and with Ecclesiastes: "Men go and come, but earth abides...
...wedded John Agars." But the Free Press neatly recovered the fumble in a note to its readers in the news section: "This was our darling, dimpled Shirley Temple, and we never thought SHE'd do this to us . . . So here's the Free Press− 119 years old, mind you−compromised by a little Hollywood cutie. We ain't ever going to trust an actress again...
Brown University administrators reached an impasse yesterday as the result of open student opposition to President Wriston's decision to enforce a 20-year-old edict on alcohol and women in dormitories...