Word: runge
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Even the British, who had drawn up the independence papers long ago, were unprepared for the event. There was no Union Jack that could be dramatically rung down. None of the Queen's relatives were there. The ceremony was not even held in the Maldives. It took place, quite unexpectedly, when Sultan Ibrahim Nasir appeared at the door of the British High Commissioner's home in Ceylon and said he was ready to sign. He was sorry to arrive without warning, said Nasir, but he hadn't expected to be coming to Colombo so soon...
...sketches the wretched Cuban sugar workers sweltering away in steerage. She, a girl of polish, prefers nice portraits, or maybe landscapes. Their conflict is resolved in bed, where the masses can't come between them. Such Abby Mannerisms help transform a substantial work of art into a second-rung work of artifice, never quite worthy of those Ship passengers who deserve to travel first class...
...wonderful ordinariness,* he has managed to write nearly 500 books. To his long list of heroes-Gideon of the Yard, The Toff, Handsome West-Creasey here adds his first new one in ten years. He is Dr. Emmanuel ("Manny") Cellini, psychiatrist first, detective second, who in this adventure is rung in to help not the bobbies but the criminal's neurotic parents. For them and for the reader, Cellini has an almost revolutionary message: some people are not spoiled by their environment or their families-they are just plain no good...
...Copacabana in November. But in fact, she has already conquered. Not only was Downtown the best hit of 1964; right behind it is her I Know a Place, which in the past five weeks has zoomed from No. 50 to No. 2, seems sure to make the last rung...
...living person's autograph the highest price ever paid was rung up in an auction last year for a four-page letter from Jacqueline Kennedy, written when her husband was a Senator, in reply to a begging letter from an Englishman. Auctioneers had estimated that the letter would bring no more than $250, but a Boston lawyer paid...