Word: roading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...round swimming pool ripples within sight of icy mountains, and fashionably dressed men and women frequent the Westward Hotel's spiffy cocktail lounge. Juneau still straggles with dingy, narrow streets from the roaring gold-rush times. Local phone service ends twelve miles from town, electricity 19 miles, the road 26 miles. In Juneau too, as if insulated from the rest of the territory by the mountains, are those who are most vocal against immediate statehood, led by the Juneau Empire's Publisher William Prescott ("Alamo"') Allen, a former Texan...
Should a failure of my attempt show that I made a mistake . . . the only road open to me would be to transfer immediately all my powers to the president of the National Assembly...
...Union Pacific and learned western technique from a visiting WPA art instructor. Two months after Pearl Harbor he was fired, ordered to quit his company house within 24 hours. He burned all the possessions he could not pack into his jalopy and trailer, took to the road with his wife and two sons, wandered for a year before he got a job as a railroad car inspector. "But somehow I paint," he recalls. "It was the only thing that keep...
Novelist Donleavy himself seems to have some such intention for his picaresque ranting hero and leaves him with a vision of the world running to nothing, like horses on a wintry road at night, and a prayer: "God's mercy/On the wild/ Ginger Man." But before this end is reached, the reader, surfeited on Joyce and ginger ale, may well want to conclude on a new version of Mrs. Bloom's last word to the reader of Ulysses: "No and I said...
From the Grill. In Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, a hippopotamus clopped into a gas station, thunderously knocked over empty oil drums, hit the road, chewed $200 damage out of a passing...