Word: postman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Y.M.C.A. summer camp. And on his library mantel is a cup given him for winning a heel-and-toe walking race at a fair near Poughkeepsie in 1921. He had entered the contest because he considered it a "real challenge": the only other man in the race was a postman. At Rutgers (where he was Phi Beta Kappa), he was an attack man on the varsity lacrosse team, and he has a broken nose to show...
They knocked on Planas' door, calling out that it was the postman. When the door was opened, Polo's men, revolvers at the ready, burst into the room. The old-looking man, pale and trembling in a corner, offered no resistance...
...presentiments and shot through each line with vigor of life. His subject is one day in a small Welsh town and the life of its people. It is not an important day: the people dream--of the past, and of lovers, and of the dead. They work while the postman brings news of the day and of each other. They eat, and some pray, and some debauch; then they sleep. It is the daily cycle which Thomas found always fresh and with meaning. Without pretense or confusion, he presents this day on two levels, both as the routine of villagers...
...with charm and bounce for "Incognito"--her only singing chore. And her acting, when not rushed, was very competent. For a chorus of "All About Love," Ellen McHugh showed perhaps the most talent for comedy in the cast, closely followed by Shiela Flaherty's board rendition of "When the Postman Rings the Bell With New Yorker...
...Burden. In Hazebrouck, France, Postman Maurice Croquey confessed that he had failed to deliver some 800 letters, newspapers and circulars found in his house because they made his mailbag too heavy, admitted burning 200 other pieces of mail because they had been cluttering up his parlor...