Word: summonses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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I answer thy summons O Lord, I answer
A buxom diva trills in a concert hall. Suddenly-zap!-she loses the melody and desperately summons the "Melody Doctor." Enter a Groucho Marx double, complete with cigar and leer. To the tune of outrageous one-liners, he re-creates the missing melody, placing huge notes on a blackboard.
It's not much compared with the digs next door, but Amy Carter calls her new tree house home. Situated in a secluded thicket on the south lawn of the White House, the 4-ft. by 5-ft. platform is raised on wooden stilts and can be reached by...
"Comrade Chiang Ch'ing is prepared!" These words were the summons to leave the guesthouse, where we had been waiting, and begin the drive to Chiang Ch'ing's villa. Leading to [the] villa was a narrow winding road flanked by deep bamboo groves. In them, young...
Other well-meaning if farfetched schemes have been suggested as instant solutions to the Great Western Drought. California's Governor Jerry Brown received one proposal from a correspondent urging a statewide "psychic day," during which California's entire populace would join in a spiritual summons for rain. Another...