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...that she is single, Roose-Evans tells almost nothing about her, far less than he reveals about her friends in England. Does she have a love life? Not a word. Does she ever leave her apartment? Again, scarcely a syllable. Has she ever explored one of Manhattan's secondhand bookstores? Apparently not. There are other puzzles, one being why the play has run a year in London, and by the end of the evening, many in the audience may think they have been sent to the wrong address...
...thought some, and quietly sold for $50,000 the stock in the business he had bought for $2,500 in 1951. Elden: who had strung Army field wire at $14 a mile to add to the 100 or so subscribers he began with. Elden: who had tinkered with one secondhand switchboard after another-Western Electric, Stromberg-Carlson, Northern Electric. Elden: who had pulled himself out of bed to man the phones more midnights than he cares to remember, wakened by a night-alarm gong from the switchboard and a kick or two from his wife Barbara, who with her daughter...
...title of the play derives from the act of a boy named John Taplow (Bruce Wall). The one pupil who fears Crocker-Harris but does not hate him, Taplow brings the teacher a going-away present, a secondhand copy of Robert Browning's translation of Agamemnon. The seemingly granitic "Crock" is riven by tears. The reliably bitchy Millie quickly dries his eyes by suggesting that the boy is simply buttering him up to get a passing grade...
...Washington press corps. But that did not prevent members from poking fun at Honored Guest Nancy Reagan, 60, and her reputation for the name-wear of haute couture. They produced a barbed, post-dinner skit, to the tune of Second Hand Rose, that featured such lines as "Secondhand dress/ Goodbye, you old worn-out mess/ I never wear a frock more than once/ Calvin Klein, Adolfo, Ralph Lauren and Bill Blass/ Ronald Reagan's mamma's going strictly first class." The ditty elicited rousing applause and, to the surprise of everyone, a bold, well-prepared rejoinder from...
...power of interest groups and the nearly insurmountable political and practical problems associated with formulating a $700-billion budget. It seems more likely though and this is evidenced by the scarce references to the Stockman article in the Crimson editorial, that the Crimson editor simply read a few secondhand newspaper accounts of the article and then opportunistically launched into a nasty essay which attempts to discredit the whole of supply-side economics and the integrity of the President...