Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Examination proctors twice a year take their toll of undergraduate nerves and patience by often creating as much tension as the blue books they distribute. Since they apparently operate under the theory that students will cheat if they can, some proctors prowl around the examination room like watchdogs, emitting an occasional growl and contributing to an already unpleasant atmosphere...
Doctors have long sought a way to handle night calls. Latest system, launched in London: a firm that takes doctors' calls, like a telephone answering service, immediately dispatches substitute physicians in prowl cars with two-way radios. Doctors can subscribe to the service for a night (cost: $1.05), a week (cost: $7.56) or a weekend (cost...
...stories are mentally furnished in something better than Farrell's caveman modern. Kilroy Was Here is an evocative, semi-autobiographical prowl among the littered streets and crumbling tenements of Farrell's boyhood on Chicago's South Side. Tart as melting aspirin on the tongue, it lives up to its tag line, "Kilroy was here but left because the place stank." A Baptism in Italy takes a tender look at a beat-up Italian writer-revolutionary who is punchdrunk from too many rounds in a concentration camp. He rouses himself to play gracious host to a sympathetic pair...
...most prospective automobile buyers, the major difficulty involved in buying a Cadillac is the financing. Last week in New York City, a town where herds of Cadillacs prowl the canyons of the upper East Side, it was hard even for those with the asking price ($3,881.71 to $6,285.96) to buy a new Caddie. In five Cadillac agencies, 84 automobile salesmen (95% the sales force) were on strike. The strikers, all recently organized members of Local 917, Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers, A.F.L. have been averaging $1,400 a month in salaries and commissions, according to General...
...rose petal on it. murmured seductively: "That is your mouth." Furthermore, he declared. "You are a quivering pink poppy in a golden, windswept space." John was a poor young cartoonist in those days, and all he could pay was compliments, but there were many wealthy wolves on the prowl at Evelyn's door. At 16, she had adorned the cover of Collier's magazine in the famous Eternal Question portrait by Charles Dana Gibson, and she was known to thousands as the prettiest piece of fluff in the big city...