Word: postcarder
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...second half of the play satirizes a group of modern debunkers who skeptically visit St. Anthony's tomb, gloatingly find it empty. But after they have gone Anthony reappears, praising the faith of a poor postcard hawker who has continued to believe...
...Agent Brown once wrote Shaw pointing out that on one date he had written one thing and on another a complete contradiction, to which Shaw replied, on a postcard: "My Dear C.B.: How old are you? G.B.S...
Last week, Paul Scott Mowrer (rhymes with how were), now a balding, portly, pontifical gentleman whom postcard vendors would not dream of approaching, was again in Paris, this time as editor of the Paris Post, the New York Post's Paris sister. He had found it quite necessary to write about European politics; and by this time everyone took the necessity for granted. In the U.S., his curiously titled autobiography, The House of Europe (Houghton, Mifflin; $3.75), had just appeared...
...reply came back on a postcard: "SO MUCH THE BETTER...
...long. He chops wood for relaxation. He is as ruthless with societies of his admirers as Stalin with the opposition, and buys the postage stamps for his enormous correspondence in ?5 lots. He orders them from the village postmistress on a three ha'penny postcard. She sells the postcards to his fans for 10s. 6d. apiece. This is typical of the economic contradictions that beset the old socialist, and of which he discourses in his new book...