Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English. It was also Mencken who gave Knopf a "moustache cup" for his birthday so that he could drink without endangering his copious whiskers. Concerning his own birthday, Mencken once said "I used to spend my birthday in prayer but today I went to a brewery and the scheme worked fine...
...Marlowe's maturest piece of writing; certainly it is his most interesting piece of stagecraft. For the play moves becautifully through the complicated tragedy of the weak king Edward, employing a large--though never bulky--cast of scoundrel lords and scurrilous peasantry. Indeed, in its pageant and scheme, the play resembles nothing so much as Shakespeare's own "Richard II." Edward, like Richard, is a king devoted more to his own pleasures than to ruling, and while England goes noisily to hell, he frolics with his minions. The rhetoric of the play, unlike that of "Richard," is never memorable, rarely...
Rockefeller, obviously buoyed up by a feeling that he is gaining on Goldwater, last week campaigned hard in New Hampshire with his expectant wife. In a tough statement issued at Keene, Rocky hit again at Goldwater's scheme to make social security a voluntary program. Said Rockefeller: "It would bankrupt the social security system and be a personal disaster to millions of senior citizens and their families." Despite zero temperatures, Rocky clutched hundreds of hands and rattled off a spate of quick speeches to shivering but receptive crowds. Always easygoing and folksy, Rockefeller engaged a platoon of little boys...
...Russian press gave this account: one Bentsion Roifman, a public-health functionary in a Moscow workers' district, bribed his way into a job overseeing several physical therapy workshops for mental patients. Enlisting some aides, Roifman proceeded to convert the workshops to his own use. He brought into the scheme state factory executives from as far away as Leningrad and the Ukraine, and they shipped him 58 knitting machines-ostensibly for the rehabilitation of the mental patients. From a Moscow hosiery factory Businessman Roifman cadged a starting supply of 25 tons of waste thread; from collective sheep farms he found...
...other dorm has thus far adopted the cubby-hole policy, and reaction to the Briggs scheme has been mixed. Several girls commented last night that the plan's complexity was "definitely worth the privacy it insures." A Harvard junior said. "It's remarkably civilized." Another 'Cliffe latoned, "Personally, I think it's potty...