Word: publics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dawson crowd" and its red light, consider Godfrey's figures overly modest. They once counted 30 arrests in a single day, estimated the light's take at something upwards of $50,000 a year, got brushed aside when they demanded a look at town books on public revenue and outlays...
...place themselves directly in De Gaulle's path. Just as they were about to meet face to face, suave Jacques Chaban-Delmas, responding to advance warnings from Socialists, deftly steered the shortsighted general off in another direction. But it was an unsettling portent. Glumly, the organizers of every public affair that De Gaulle is expected to attend in the next few weeks braced themselves for a rush of unwelcome Red guests...
...constitution and laws. Just to get at me. That's not diplomatic. Some day, I'll go back home. I certainly won't let those charges go unanswered. But I'll answer them at my own convenience, not at the convenience of some parasitic public official...
Pigeons are pigeons, and their affinity for public statues is well-known to city dwellers. The Times of London took it upon itself to survey some of the city's monumental figures and their various states of inundation. William Ewart Gladstone: "The melancholy truth is that [he] does not stand close scrutiny these days. His bared head has been made indecently white by the birds of the Strand." Booze-hating Sir Wilfrid Lawson: "The pigeons have dealt most unkindly [with him]." Poet Robert Burns: "[His] slight defacement merely has the effect of giving him a tearful left...
...working newsman double in brass as a working public personality without fear of embarrassment? To some who busily try, the answer came last week...