Word: teacups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thomas Carlyle was often a boor, but never a bore. When he came courting Jane Welsh, he "made puddings in his teacup" and "scratched the fender dreadfully," causing her to say that he should be confined in "carpet-shoes and handcuffs" with only his "tongue . . . left at liberty...
...vote of 50-35 the lawmakers took a resource that belongs to the whole country and bestowed it on three states. The resource was our oil-rich submerged coastal lands; the booty was large enough to make the annual Rivers and Harbors pork barrel look like a teacup...
...HICOG headquarters, there is a seven-section concrete and glass structure with a 1,500-seat cafeteria and a 100,000-volume library. Four miles away stands a cluster of new two-story apartment houses, 458 apartments in all, each furnished down to the last curtain, dessert spoon and teacup. They range from tasteful bedroom, living room, kitchen combinations for bachelors to four-bedroom duplexes, and offer three kinds of decor: Greenwich Village modern, heavy German, or imitation French classical. Rent: free...
...miles outside of New Haven, sitting like the saucer of a giant teacup, lies the Yale Bowl. From the outside it is unimpressive. There is no mighty iron fence nor massive concrete sides to mark it at a distance, but only a mound of shrubs with hollow portals peeking...
...plot, The Dividing Stream adds up to little more than an emotional tempest in a cracked teacup. Atmospherically, English Novelist Francis King, 28, does better. In dozens of pungent little Florentine sketches, ranging from cynical policemen to bent-double washerwomen, he evokes the passion and poverty of the people. Most memorable: two scrubby street urchins who think and move with an artless, pagan ease which suggests that the good life, and not a twisted packet of "problems," is man's rightful heritage...