Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hate to be an old bastard, but I want you to line up Lady Halpert and your Art section editor long enough for me to whisper something in their shell-pink ears. The reproduction of Knight's Farmhouse Gossip is a very poor copy of an original painting called A Secret. . . . The original was photographic in style and a hell of a lot better than the foul copy "originated" by Mr. Knight...
Jersey Level. Standard,Gil Co. of New Jersey, which refused to hike its gasoline prices two months ago, won a price skirmish over competitors who did. As new customers flocked to Standard stations, the Texas Co. and Shell Oil cut the price of their gasoline by ½? a gallon to the "Jersey level." Most of Standard's other competitors followed suit, while smaller companies prepared to fall into line...
...credit, and another to return to silver coinage, a move that would help the mining industry. His best piece of news had been written into the address at the last minute: after a nine-year controversy, Mexico had finally settled the oil expropriation row with Britain. For Royal Dutch Shell's subsidiary, the El Águila Petroleum Co., Mexico would pay $81,250,000 over the next 15 years, plus 3% interest...
Clive deserted the Church of Ireland (affiliated with the Anglican Church) for atheism. After a brief World War I career as a 2nd lieutenant in France, where he was wounded in the back by a British shell that fell short, Lewis graduated from Oxford with honors, tried a few years as a starveling poet, and in 1925 happily accepted his present post...
William Saroyan, who also writes, prepared to send up another Saroyanesque rocket after a long, tense quiet. Out next fortnight: a new play (not yet produced), called Jim Dandy: Fat Man in a Famine. "The action takes place in a transparent egg shell," announced Publishers Harcourt, Brace in ventriloquial tones, "inside which are miserable and majestic ruins, representing immemorial and immediate reality...