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happiness -penás, -pán- n -ES [happy + -ness) 1 archaic : good
fortune : good luck : PROSPERITY
...self-conscious note on the dust jacket informs that Author Goodman saw Army service during the war "but all of it in the U.S.," suggesting that The End of It might be just another attempt to ring the bell of Adano with a ballpoint pen. But he has collected his material with all the thorough absorption of a Walter Lord assembling data on the voyage of the Titanic, and after a turgid beginning in which the book nearly founders in the rhetoric of Why and Wherefore, he writes closely and often superbly, offering on the side a fascinating lesson...
...ladies in question are the infamous belles of St. Trinian's, a gymslip brigade of teacher's pests who terrorize one of the seamier seminaries in Britain's Poison Ivy League. The little horrors were hideously hilarious when they first came squiggling and splotching from the pen point of Cartoonist Ronald Searle. They even had a certain roachy charm in their first two films. But now the joke is as moldy as the girls-theater owners will be well advised to put the fans...
...West's refusal to give in on Berlin: "They want to treat us like schoolboys-sit still, put your hands on the desk, don't dare to take a pen to sign a peace treaty. But we are men, too, and we are a strong nation to boot...
...installed) promises a revolution in dairy production, especially for dairymen who live in states (California, Arizona, Florida) where laws require that dairy cattle be thoroughly washed before milking. By the usual inefficient and costly method, the cow has to be hosed down or herded into a soaking pen, and washing consumes about 30 gal. of water per cow. The Cowash, which uses about 3 gal. per cow, operates pretty much like an automatic automobile washer, with the cow tripping the switches as she moves along the track. Says Corona, Calif.'s Milk Mogul Tony Cardoza: "The cows are much...