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...other members of the orchestra. Aboard the Saints' bus, the majority of passengers are women, mostly string players who have been with the orchestra for years. Mormon prayer books are much in evidence, and hymn sing-alongs help to pass time. With the Sinners, it is not only smokier: the passengers are predominantly men, many new to the orchestra, and the talk tends to gripes about six-hour bus rides to play a concert and union negotiations with management. The Sinners are aware that the Saints consider them irreverent. "The Mormons really think they are superior people," says...
...walls of shale/Cruise around the rotting whale." Europe was the beached behemoth and the ravens, the Blackshirts and the SS. Out of their few weeks spent getting saddle sores on bad-tempered Icelandic ponies or in rattletrap buses on boulder-paved roads, eating terrible meals of smoked mutton in smokier hovels, Auden and MacNeice re-created an odd and magical journey compounded of poems (satirical, epistolatory and familiar), letters, guidebook information, parodies, private jokes and public protest...
According to the Herald of Monday, Professor Drinker said just that. If he said it, he is not competent to be an assistant professor in any school or kindergarten of public health. Boston is a particularly smoky city, and it is getting smokier every month. It is not as smoky as Pittsburg, but it is too smoky, and everybody except Assistant Professor Drinker and those responsible for the smoke are ready to say so and to prove...
...steam railroads out of Boston are "not particularly smoky," compared with other steam railroads, but they are a good deal smokier than the roads that have been electrified and their trains are a good deal less inviting than the trains of electrified systems and sections. That particular assistant professor, if he said what he was credited with saying, might well receive a vote of thanks from those who are directly responsible for the increasing smokiness and dirtiness of Boston's atmosphere. Boston Review
...Manhattan, Dr. I. Mortimer Smokier, dentist, pulled and pulled at the teeth of Mrs. Molly Blumlein. In 17 pulls he got 17 teeth, but none the right one. Now Dentist Smokier, by court decision, must pay $16,000 to Mrs. Blumlein, and $3,000 to Husband Blumlein for interference with his wife's duties...