Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hoping to stop the phonies at the reservations counters, the airlines are offering clerks a $25 reward for each ticket they spot against a list of the stolen blanks' serial numbers-which is the only way they can be positively detected. Meanwhile the lines are spreading the word that the discount tickets are no bargain. Passengers caught with them can be arrested for using stolen property, though unwitting travelers get off easily. Last month TWA investigators caught up with two young girls who had made it to Madrid on bogus tickets they had bought in Los Angeles. Convinced that...
...necessary to accept Freud to see gambling as a challenge of fate, an existentialist insistence on man's freedom to waste himself and his substance, if he so chooses. Others see in gambling an essentially childish desire for unearned reward, and a yearning for magic-which may explain why gamblers are notoriously superstitious...
...inevitable showdown, the two men make a lot of threatening sounds but never get around to any blood sport. Two hotheads, they reason, are better than one, and together they ride out to gun down a gang of Mexican bank robbers and split the reward. As Van Cleef and Eastwood close in for the kill, bodies begin to pile up like cordwood, and enough lead is exchanged to re-equip the Egyptian army. Long before the end, the violence becomes a bit like a Grand Guignol show-raucous, incessant and absurd...
...what Stephen Birmingham calls Manhattan's "other Society," the great Jewish families of New York. Their founders, nearly all of them German, arrived in the U.S. in the middle decades of the 19th century. Nearly all of them were desperately poor; but in a young nation willing to reward industry, they succeeded beyond their dreams, along a route that led from peddlers' packs to high finance. Today, their banking and brokerage houses stand like monuments on Wall Street, and there are symbols, in other permutations, scattered the length of Manhattan: Macy's (owned by the Strauses), Lewisohn...
...Massachusetts Bay Colony was hardly the place to look for a poet. It was an offshoot of England's Puritan century-righteous, suspicious, humorless and stern. The most trivial event seemed like a personal message from God to be read as a rebuke or reward...