Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's Labor Party had been protesting publicly that their differences were really nothing at all. Any minute, said both sides, would see the start of a second honeymoon. Last week, in the theoretical privacy of the party's 51st annual conference at Morecambe, a Lancashire seaside resort familiar to many a honeymooner, the pent-up emotions in both factions exploded in a headline-making brawl...
...student chose Havana for his term-time vacation resort, and the series of events which followed this choice put a scowl on the University's physiognomy. The student wrote a series of post-dated letters, addressed to his father, and left them with a friend who was to mail them at certain designated intervals. The friend, however, decided to mail the entire lot at once. Several days later the vacationing student's irate father was in Cambridge. Neither he nor the administration had any idea of where...
...protest against Fellow Poetess Pierette Micheloud, of Vex, Switzerland, who insisted on puffing away at a long-stemmed, elegant pipe. The limerick was by far the sharpest contribution heard at the First International Poetry Biennial, which assembled 200 poets from 30 countries at Knokke le Zoute, Belgian seaside resort, to spend a happy four days talking shop and eying each other's iambs...
...everything runs by fad: in the '30s she marched in Union Square, now she cultivates her ego. Still beautiful in middle age, her mind as sleek as her skin, shrewd in business, burning with vanity, oozing prefabricated charm, she personifies the glossiest in Manhattan nightclub and summer-resort society. One weekend, in the summer of 1950, while the radio hums with reports of war in Korea, Carlotta throws a party in East Hampton for a speculator in money and models, a fellow-traveling movie director, an interior decorator with Lesbian appetites, and the decorator's religious husband...
...programs-all supervised by school and community instructors. Once, when two small boys invaded Mott's office to complain that the Park Department could not afford to keep the city swimming pools open in August, Mott immediately decided to foot the bill. "We are," says he, "a last-resort organization...