Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This may seem a drastic statement--especially to my brothers, teachers, old friends, faithful dog and so on. But look at the evidence: One of my earliest memories is of asking my mother to explain the E.B. White/Carl Rose cartoon: "It's broccoli, dear." "I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it." (That caption, by the way, is now in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.) Other memories: we are all working in the garden. Someone holds up a piece of our all-too-tenacious ivy and cries "Watch out Fred, here it comes again!" My dog announces...
...shares; subtracting the $250 he had paid for the option would still leave a profit of $250, less commissions, in less than three months. Alternatively, if he did not want to bother buying the stock, he could resell the option at a profit. As the market price of Polaroid rose, the price of the option also would climb above the original $250-probably at a steeper rate than the price of the stock itself...
...Sandow has a special predilection for football. "I love the game itself--being part of it," he says. "I look forward to playing on scouting teams. It doesn't make any difference to me whether I play in the Rose Bowl or scouting games. When you get the ball, it's all the same difference...
...genuine foreigner in the midst of the Venetian oligarchy, overdid his accent to the point where--combined with the wheezing and spluttering of old age--it obscured his lines. In a sense Epstein's commanding talent determined the production's orientation. As the only member of the cast who rose above the congenital American inability to speak Shakespeare, Epstein couldn't help but invest Shylock with a noble superiority of manner and a dominant position in the play...
Although not vengeful, Rose: My Life in Service has the unmistakable markings of an exercise in British upmanship. A Yorkshire girl is equal-if not superior-to the daughter of a Virginia horse trader...