Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whispering campaign, admitting that Cuban women will work for less, but claiming they cannot be trusted around husbands in the households where they are employed. A Miami druggist explains another cause for resentment: "A Cuban comes in here and says in broken English. 'How much you pay your soda fountain dishwasher?' I tell him. and he offers to work for half as much...
...long, turgid novels that required two hands to hold, said not much, and invariably buckled of their own weight, since sight, sound and mood cannot sustain a span of 900 pages. Lately, however, he has begun writing short fiction again. Last year's trilogy of novellas, Sermons and Soda-Water, was a highly successful return to the style of his early work. Some of the stories in the present collection are even better...
...size and quality of their cargo. Mr. Bartley owns the Square's Harvard Spa Luncheonette (in the past little more than a collection of odds and ends: a good part of a stationery shop, half of a grocery more, and just a truncated bit of a soda fountain). Reportedly, Bartley had been dissatisfied with this assortment of leftovers for some time; and a hamburg revival became his means for a change...
Thin as a soda straw, but vastly more resilient, Fonda makes a personable Broadway debut as the third of the acting Fondas (Father Henry, Sister Jane). Otherwise, all of the familiar adenoidal monsters that only a first sergeant could love show up for roll call in Stanley Poole, and the laughs are mostly AWOL...
...homework. It means piano lessons, too-usually lonely sessions with a private teacher once a week. But for a fast-growing number of youngsters from 6 to 18, the once dreaded struggle with sharps and flats is now as lively as a trip with the gang to the soda fountain. Well, almost. The burgeoning category of "group" activities-from groupthink to group therapy-now includes the newest wrinkle in piano teaching: group plink. Items...