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Many of those on Anderson's lists represented normal market trading, there was a sprinkling of big operators, with no known Government connections. "But GOPresidential Candidate Harold Stassen peppered away at the Administration, accused it of withholding information and of creating "confusion and distraction . . . by a shower of irrelevant statistics...
...with presents and decorated with gay streamers, was hung from the ceiling. One by one guests were blindfolded, spun around, and allowed to crack at the pinata with a palo (stick). Usually they missed. Then the smallest child was allowed to split it open, whereupon everyone dived for the shower of candies, fruits and toys...
Raymond Crew '51 organized a chamber orchestra to serenade the Freshmen from the Union balcony at luncheon Saturday. The group was driven into disorganized retreat, however, amidst a shower of rolls and hotdogs accurately directed by these eating on the floor below. Refusing to be daunted, Grew obtained endorsement of his nomination from starlett Gloria Grahame of the movie, "Crossfire...
Three weeks ago Pieter was on his way to Tanganyika on a dowsing expedition. En route he stopped at a hotel in Salisbury, the capital of Southern Rhodesia. Pieter wanted a shower. But peer as he would, Pieter could see no moonbeams glinting from the plumbing in his hotel bathroom. Salisbury was in the midst of an acute water shortage. Pieter called his manager. The manager called the mayor, who just then was sitting, racking his brains over the water crisis, in a tub containing two meager inches of water. When Pieter's manager offered to help, the mayor...
...shabby top hats, shabby fur coats, fine and disciplined faces . . . the people that open bazaars," the bride, "white as marble," the groom, "like many a bridegroom before him, greenish white in complexion . . . almost podgy with solemnity." She thrilled to the fanfare of trumpets that heralded the bride: "like a shower of shooting stars on a winter sky expressed in sound...