Word: perks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could plausibly be the criminal; and as in most mysteries, these people are thrown together in an implausible situation. After the death of old Mr. Enderby and the murder of his sister, the surviving relatives gather at nephew Hector's hotel for a riding holiday - just the thing to perk one up after two dreary funerals...
...comes the mysterious Dr. Ox, who builds a "gasworks" and begins laying pipe so that the good villagers can enjoy the luxury of gaslight in their homes. Or so everybody thinks. Actually Dr. Ox plans to flood the place with oxygen to see if things perk up a little...
...They perk. Take the opera: usually, three evenings are required for the performance of one work; Dr. Ox sprays the hall with his secret ingredient, and pouf! The joint goes wild. Frenzied musicians bust their instruments, and the audience whips into a wild free-for-all. In the gardens, shrubs become trees, cabbages become bushes, mushrooms become umbrellas. Kids take to throw ing things at the teachers, townspeople eat and drink as never before, a couple gets married after only two months of courtship, two people fight a duel...
...Elliott Perkins. At the time the College wondered what changes Perkins would make in the House; and specifically, whether he would abandon what the CRIMSON called, two days before his appointment, "Lowell's traditional style of life, modeled on life at Oxbridge." In twenty-three years in the House, Perk has decisively laid such doubts to rest. And as he retires this year from the Mastership, he leaves a House whose own traditions, and whose sense of tradition, he has kept burning brightly--like the flame of the Yule log and the light of the High Table candles--against...
Since the President is in a hurry for tax reduction to perk up the economy, he would prefer to put his tax proposals in two separate packages?cuts now, reform later. Many businessmen agree with that approach. Last November the President's Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy declared that the tax-reform issue "should not be permitted to postpone action on the urgently needed reduction in tax rates." A few weeks later, the influential Committee for Economic Development argued that it would be "unwise" to let "controversial problems of the tax structure" delay tax cuts...