Word: postman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while the average Cambridge postman knows very little about Persian messengers or even about Herodotus, it should be fairly obvious from the above quotation that he has something in common with the former and is somewhat in debt to the latter...
...Ever since their arrest more than a year ago, neighbors and newspaper readers had known the pair as "the Possessed," but cool, handsome Jacques and his pale paramour looked anything but demonic as they sat, clad in black, listening impassively to the charges. The daughter of a poor postman, orphaned at 13 and self-educated, Denise had been a capable, serious-minded government secretary. Jacques, an illegitimate child whose parents had married only as an afterthought, was a graduate of Saint-Cyr, an artillery lieutenant and a dedicated student of philosophy...
Neither Rain nor Snow. In Joliet, Ill., arrested after postal inspectors found eleven bags of parcel-post packages, two cartons and two suitcases full of undelivered letters, cards, newspapers and magazines strewn over the floor of his bedroom, ex-Postman Alvin Timm explained that he had dumped the mail because he is subject to bunions and tires easily...
Tearing the Heart. No one realizes this better than Candidate Stevenson. Touring Pennsylvania last week, Stevenson drew good crowds but appeared weary and snappish (mourned friendly N.Y. Postman Murray Kempton: "It almost tears the heart to see Stevenson"). Although Adlai had been assured of Pennsylvania's 74 convention votes by Governor George Leader and Pittsburgh's Mayor David Lawrence, Stevenson remarked: "I can't be sure, of course, that I will retain their allegiance until next August." Estes Kefauver was in no better shape; his improved Gallup poll rating after the Minnesota primary could be expected...
...show, made up of a series of episodes held together by little more than its comedian's abilities. He uses almost no dialogue for his effects, but in such scenes as an epic battle with tottering flag pole, and a drunken wrestling match between the postman and his bicycle, no words are necessary...