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...illustrate what he means, Gugel waves a sheaf of his drawings of the Cinderella story: a Fairy Godmother in the form of a tablecloth with eyes and feathers, dangling a spider; a cast-iron Cinderella flagging down an old-fashioned locomotive (see cut) with clocks for wheels, representing her father...
...that Alumni officialdom faced with the money-raising chores for any War Memorial. The figure was a minimum of $3,000,000 exclusive of an equal endowment for operational expenses. No one doubted that it would require that sum easily to meet the mythical ideal envisaged in the sheaf of blueprints...
Suave or Shrill. Then, picking up a sheaf of questions submitted in advance by newsmen, he tackled them in a manner alternately suave, sarcastic and shrill...
Prodding the Council to action last year was the muddled condition of the '49 Redbook, which found itself with a deficit and a sheaf of unpaid bills almost a year after the announced publication date...
...take him to the Vatican gardens. As the car drives through the various courtyards, gendarme after gendarme bends his knee to the ground and brings his hand to his visor in salute. In the garden, the Pope walks up & down the upper avenues, reading a book or a sheaf of papers. If it rains, he walks in the Passeggiata Coperta (the covered walk...