Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took cojolery for the clerk selling mens trousers to convince the seeker that book authorizations didn't include replacements for pants worn out on a Geology field trip. No, not even if the trip was undertaken under the G. I. Bill Not even if the rocks encountered there were solely responsible. Not even if the rocks were rough...
...seeker after truth last week asked: "If life holds no joy, why live?" Answered Teppe: "Why indeed...
...third God-seeker was Actor Nick Romney, who was married to "sultry, sulky" Melita. Nick read the New Testament for the first time when he was given the role of a Protestant clergyman in a play. "This is a very interesting book, Melita," Nick said. "I must get a new orange stick," said Melita. Said Nick: "The man in here-you can't help but like Him." Said Melita, fingering the perfume bottles: "I'm all out of Intoxication." She also made Nick massage her big toe. At last Nick slipped a gun in his pocket and went...
Doubting Divine. The fourth God-seeker was the Reverend Job Tatum, who had risen from the wrong side of the tracks to the pulpit of one of Manhattan's toniest churches. But on Easter Sunday, 1944, when Job intoned his text, "I am the Resurrection and the Life," none of the congregation (which included Gladys, Laura and Nick) knew that Job had suddenly realized that "he did not believe a word of what he was saying...
From the pioneer Connecticut outpost has grown an industrial city of 65,000. Near the commemorative tablet stands a World War II honor roll, with gold stars marking the name of many a newer seeker after liberty: Arruzza, Dubrovsky, Malizewski, Pezzimenti...