Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three weeks since he arrived in the palm-and frangipani-dotted capital of Colombo bravely proclaiming, "My name is Gluck, and it rhymes with pluck," Gluck has got on famously. On his first official call, Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike confided genially that Gluck was not the first to have trouble with his name. After four years at Oxford, Bandaranaike told Gluck, he had only two friends who got it right...
Four Winds (by Thomas W. Phipps) has to do with an immensely rich, exceedingly harassed, many-times-married heiress. All about her Palm Beach house are nest-featherers and heiress-fleecers: aunts and doctors and private secretaries, former and future husbands. The heiress herself is usually up and about by midafternoon, a sort of party-girl Ophelia given to the champagne shakes. Then a visiting poet takes her for a day in the sunshine and bids her go away and find herself...
...with her"). Ronald delivered 125 copies of the daily Crookston Times for $1.50 a week, had his knuckles regularly rapped with a ruler in parochial school by a Sister Milburga. "God love her, she's gone," says Judge Davies. "I remember her very well. Instead of holding your palm up, you'd hold it down and you'd get it across the knuckles. I want you to know that hurt. It was something less than pleasant." Davies' grandfather, chief of police in East Grand Forks, across the North Dakota line from Crookston, often let Ronald...
...their luggage at last arrived in a motorcade of 50 cars and trucks escorted by screaming German police cars, Baden-Baden was ready. A Saudi Arabian flag had even been found tucked away in the spa director's attic and streamed triumphantly in the breeze beside a palm tree hurriedly erected in the hotel park. King Saud, a bit testy from the rheumatic pains which had brought him to the spa, was shown his own bed and told that it had once been slept in by the Queen of Persia. "Too soft," he snapped. That night he rushed through...
HUGE REAL-ESTATE DEAL will bring Boston syndicate into West Palm Beach, Fla. to put up $350 million new city with 10,000 housing units, two shopping centers, one of biggest industrial areas in South. Group includes Developer Martin Cerel, Lou Perini of Milwaukee Braves baseball club and Boston's Perini Corp. (heavy construction). They bought a 4,000-acre tract for $4,352,503, will start work within six months...