Word: rakings
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...maketh me to rake leaves in green pastures: he dameth up for me the still waters...
...AWAY BLACKBIRD-Jerrard Tickell -Morrow ($2.50). Open-air love story about a clean-cut, strangely noble Irishman and a Viennese beauty who married a rich rake to pay her daddy's bills...
...outlying possessions. Despoiled 18th Century Venice survived on the remnants of its great traders' fortunes, and the city slowly, deliberately died, as Austria's Vienna dies today. In this cemetery of old magnificence, half a dozen men supplied the only signs of first-rate life: Casanova the rake, Goldoni the playwright and Painters Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francesco Guardi and Pietro Longhi. Last week Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries put on a show of the Venetian painters who made Venice's twilight tolerable...
Author Bentley, without disallowing history's whispers that Caesar was a rake, minimizes the details. Readers who expect a luscious Egyptian interlude with Cleopatra do not know their Bentley. Cleopatra makes only one appearance-fully clothed and middleaged. Caesar's most constant mistress was Servilia, Brutus' mother, and of her Author Bentley contrives to make a somehow noble Roman matron, though she was twice married and continually unfaithful to both husbands. The other chief figures in the story appear as conventional history reports them: Pompey, a handsome, courageous, slow-minded soldier; Cicero a henpecked, opportunistic politician with...
...conclusion of the investigation by the Department of Commerce and by American Airlines at the scene of the crash more than 20 men were employed to rake the entire swamp area and to assemble in one place any and all parts of the airplane discovered...