Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have an anecdote that involves Mr. Marx: several years ago, at Vallauris, France, Irving Berlin and I met Picasso; he'd been making abstract statues-incorporating broken bits and pieces from his children's toys (one creation had a tin washbasin in its stone stomach and a toy propeller imbedded in its navel). We promised to send the children some new toys and asked Louis Marx to ship a few and bill us (which he never did). Santa Marx sent a huge crate of toys, but it took two years for the children to finally receive them, because...
Each morning Emma B. got up and dressed, joined the rest of the household for breakfast, then caught a bus to an old stone mansion on Montreal's Pine Avenue. At 34, Emma looked like any other secretary going to work. But her destination was no office: it was the Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry. There, from 9 to 5, Emma was a mental patient. In the evening, she took the bus home again...
...world seem to have lost their capacity for moral indignation against the most brutal inhumanities when they are perpetrated by Communists. It is painful, but we must face the cruel facts of life. It is disturbing to me that many people in our country who call themselves liberals are stone silent about the Soviet concentration camps. They never find the time to utter a word of condemnation against the Communist imperialist destruction of the national independence and democratic rights of hundreds of millions of people in Europe and Asia...
...Omaha, "Mack" Baldridge, 1916 Yale tackle, boarded the train unexpectedly and revealed that Oregon was using underhanded methods. "Oregon is leaving no stone unturned in preparing its team to defeat you," he said. "I know a Yale player who was offered $150 and expenses to pay a visit to Oregon and outline Harvard's style of play in a blackboard talk...
...raccoons invaded the property, too, in search of winter provender. In the gracious house, the lamps were snapped on earlier each day in salute to the sudden evenings, and open fires on the hearth provided a warm welcome after a walk in the frosty outdoors. In the great stone barn there was a steamy, cozy air of expectancy; several of the cows were freshening, and soon the herd of Aberdeen Angus, Holsteins and Brown Swiss would be larger...