Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Being a genius investor has its rewards besides making one filthy rich. Chief among them is knowing that hordes of people will follow your every move once you disclose what you have most recently bought. All the genius wannabes, you can be sure, will pile in and drive up the price of what you already own. Great work if you can find...
There is no mention of Widener in the in the script and no rare-book collector in the dining room on board. Nevertheless, when at the beginning of the film the rusty safe is eagerly opened only to reveal a pile of soaked papers, I half-expected to see what was left of Widener's first edition of Bacon's Essays, the volume he is said to have returned to his cabin to fetch before the ship went under...
Those readers whose moms still do their laundry may not be familiar with this concept. Laundry guilt is the psychological state resulting from taking somebody else's wet clothing out of a washing machine and leaving it in a bedraggled pile on top of the next washer so you can put your own clothes in. Alternatively, laundry guilt can ensue after removing dry clothes from a dryer and placing them either (a) in a plastic garbage bag or (b) on top of a washer...
...Dartboard are uncertain where to draw the line. But we do know how uncomfortable it is when the owner of the wet pile of clothes you're removing from the washing machine suddenly comes up behind you. "Oh, are those my clothes?" he says, halfway between annoyed and embarrassed. "Sorry," we say, slinking away. We'll avoid that guy for weeks. Next time, we'll try doing laundry in the middle of the night on a weekday...
...knew I was in trouble a few nights later when Ella and I were blissfully kung-fuing away in a martial-arts game. My wily six-year-old was trying to pull an unlikely Peking Pile Driver (as if I were born yesterday!), and I was this far from executing a perfect Triple-Death Windmill Kick that would have punted her out of the arena when the phone rang. "It's someone from work for you, Dada," she said, in that adorable, squeaky baby voice. "Hurry up so I can kick your ass!" My wife looked at me. "Educational...