Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dorothy Collins, Rosemary Clooney, Guy Lombardo, Gisele MacKenzie in a line-up that costs Harrah more than $2,000,000 a year. Harrah's operation must relieve the customers of $60,000 a day-more than $21 million a year-merely to break even. High as those figures sound. Bill Harrah, the largest single private employer in Nevada, beats them with ease. By next year he expects to pay more than $7,000,000 to more than 2,000 employees...
...motorboat coming," says one shaky sailor from Baltimore, "I say to myself, I am a sailboat; I have the right of way. Then I get the hell out of there." Investment Banker Julian K. Roosevelt (of the Oyster Bay Roosevelts) recalls the day on Long Island Sound when a power boat pulled alongside his father's 60-ft. schooner Mistress. The intruder bellowed: "Hey, Mac! Which way to port Jefferson?" Says Roosevelt with deep satisfaction: "I answered him in his own way and said, 'First turn to your right, Mac!'" Harrumphs a fellow New York Yacht Club...
...beer to sparkplugs to diapers. Cruising families suddenly find that children are better behaved than they were at home, and even other people somehow look nicer-good enough to wave at. They can search the primitive labyrinthine waters of Florida's Everglades, wake to the spontaneous burst of sound and color of the Mangrove Coast, where thousands of roosting ibis, egrets, anhingas and spoonbills toy, and where silver tarpon jump by moonlight and coons and otters feed and play. They fish under the dawn-pink sky out of San Diego, and in the cool basins of the Colorado mountains...
...that it was looking into a charge that two board members had "pecuniary" interest in last year's purchase of a new school site. Whatever the outcome, the Aldine school system was already a proven mess. Many a weary citizen spoke out in favor of a sad but sound solution: give all of Aldine's schools to Houston...
Clinical candor about sex and the uncommuncative discourse of the hipster are poor substitutes for sound thought and mature craftsmanship, whch explains why so few of the works of the Beat literati have been interesting, let alone readable. Easy Living, at least, is comprehensible, but the hippies who hop in and out of the beds Zane has made for them are, on the whole, lifeless forms. Rarely to they seem human; often they seem to be nothing more than sex machines. One more pot of hashish or an additional romp in the love bed could not save the book. Zane...