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...McGartys were Australian riffraff -and well content to be, so long as nobody tried to reform them. Hector ran the "Sword of Fortune," a pub near Sydney's waterfront, where blood flowed almost as freely as beer. Grandma lived near by, pretending to be deaf yet privy to every racket within miles. Wilma had eight children, none legitimate. Fred, during a turn at the reform school, ate a tin of nails to spite the superintendent. Clarrie was a con man and the family intellectual: "It's a sort of poetry," he said, "to read over the names...
...fact. I potter in the morning; I'm a very good potterer. I shop, I go to the village, walk around and speak to people. It's a short street and it takes hours to get from one end to the other. I stop at the pub and get back in time for lunch. In the afternoon there's nothing to do, so I work...
Property Right. In Lewes, England, dismissing assault charges against Norman Hyde, who had slugged a fellow pub patron for trying to down his beer, a judge ruled that "drinking another man's beer is the unforgivable...
...Finances are strained. The Daily Worker, long in difficulties, this month pub-llished a particularly desperate-sounding appeal for money, last week announced that it got results (see PRESS). Organizations which helped finance the party (e.g., the International Workers Order, an insurance concern headed by Artist Rockwell Kent) are being put out of business...
Martin started to backtrack, trying to design the simple radar that might have been developed in the early days if military money had not been so plentiful. He consulted continually with Collins (usually in a pub), and whenever he suggested adding another tube, Collins complained that he didn't want a cheaper radar, he wanted a really cheap one that would land planes effectively...