Word: tilling
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...reminds one of the days of England's great gin debauch in the early Industrial Revolution when modern methods of gin distilling were introduced and made it the preferred spirit of the working classes. For a couple of pence you got not only enough gin to knock you out till morning but a pallet of hay and a place to sleep on the barroom floor. It is said by reputable social historians that at any one time one third of the adult population of England was drunk. At the Agassiz, tonight, tomorrow and Saturday night at 8 p.m., as well...
...public offices, but always within a limited sphere of issues. Almost always they sit a Governing-Board-level and therefore for removed from the arena where the action is and where the ferment for change in our society manifests itself with a sense of urgency that seldom filters up till it erupts in bitter explosions...
gray heads, theaters filled with thou sands of members of the Golden Age Club (half price till 5 p.m.), whistling and stomping and carrying on as an other member of the heartless Establish ment gets properly snuffed...
...creating for her the post of Minister to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, where her fetes for the duchess and footloose G.I.s inspired Irving Berlin's 1950 musical Call Me Madam. Her reign as Washington's leading hostess was resumed in 1954 and continued till 1972 with a brief interregnum during the Kennedy years (she backed Nixon in 1960), though she gradually shaded into the role of dowager. Ailing from a hip injury, Mesta left Washington last year without fanfare to be close to her brother, who was holding her hand when she died...
...false as a smile and the shake of a hand." His insistence on absolute candor is blind, humorless and therefore funny. He is a moral prig who thinks of himself as the only honest man alive, and he wants the world to recognize it. He tells the truth till it hurts-others. Still, he raises an important question of principle. When does hypocrisy breed corruption...