Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little mining town in Ontario find happiness with a continental pastor who has advanced ideas? Last week Cobalt (pop. 2,400) was all riled up about Pastor Helmuth Ludwig Wipprecht and the commandment, "Thou shalt not commit adultery...
...Larkin. that's me,' Pop said . . . 'Larkin by name. Larkin by nature. What can I do for you? Nice wevver...
...Pop stood blank and innocent, staggered by the very existence of such a person...
...Taxes. Inland Revenue.' ' 'You must have come to the wrong house.' Pop said...
...collectors and plain readers of The Darling Buds of May must respectfully disagree with Pop. The story of how Cedric, the tax man, stays for dinner chez Larkin. and stays and stays only to be subverted by food, drink, love and the Larkin clan's infectious lust for life, makes H. E. (for Herbert Ernest) Bates's novel one of the blithest robustious romps of the year. The book's gusto is all the more remarkable coming from welfare-sated England and from 53-year-old Author (The Sleepless Moon) Bates, a writer who in recent years...