Word: raymonds
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PHILIP MARLOWE was always a hard one to figure. He was a loner, and he liked that way. A streak of cynicism ran through him as deep, his creator Raymond Chandler might say, as a spotted geister in a Chicago overcoat sent back-stroking in the blue Pacific. He was a hardened private dick, a real pro, and could trade quips and insults with any manner of wise-cracking low life. When a dumb and slutty millionaire's daughter tries to lead him on in The Big Sleep, cooing "you're cute," the unarousable Marlowe answers back, "What...
What Calhoun suggests is the need for some 50 new residential slots in a secured facility for juvenile offenders. Now Massachusetts has about 50 such slots, so that this new addition would bring the total to 100. "The truth is," Alan Raymond, Governor Dukakis' press secretary, says, "that there are not enough secured slots for kids...
...Ford talked with students about politics and public affairs. One of his regrets as President, he said, was his refusal to meet exiled Soviet Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn in July 1975, a decision that he maintained was a matter of "logistics" rather than policy. Ford emotionally embraced retired Football Coach Raymond ("Ducky") Pond, 74, who in 1935 hired Ford as his $2,400-a-year assistant, thereby enabling him to study law. Football, Ford told students, had "taught him to keep his eye on the ball and not to pay attention to grandstand critics...
Wahoo Sam, perhaps the game's greatest slugger before the advent of Tyrus Raymond Cobb, put it best when he said a few years ago, "And still they don't give him a tumble for the Hail of Fame. It's not right...
Friday, Feb. 11--Dr. Raymond Moody, author of the bestselling "Life after Life," will speak on "The Investigation of a Phenomenon--the Survival of Bodily Death" at the Church of the New Jerusalem. 140 Bosdoin St., Boston at 7:30 pm. Free...