Word: traders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anything but poetry was lifted during a question period when Frost commented on his recent visit to Russia. The trip was made, he said, only to see Premier Khrushchev, whom he found "a very good-natured man with a terrible lot of cool nerve, like a big horse trader...
...seedy flophouse in Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia, run by his parents. Michael and Leah Welensky. A huge, hard-drinking Jewish immigrant from Russian Poland. Michael Welensky cut off his trigger finger to avoid conscription by the Czar's army, sought his fortune as a fur trader in the U.S. before settling in Salisbury after the diamond rush. Son Roy (his real first name is Raphael) quit school at 14; after a series of odd jobs ranging from baker to bartender, he became a railroad fireman...
Bing Crosby is a member, and so are Bob Hope and Restaurateur Victor (Trader Vic's) Bergeron. Membership is limited to 100, costs $300 for initiation, $360 a year...
...went unrecognized by the public, became progressively more disenchanted. He gave up poetry and threw himself into languages and science. He became a wanderer, enlisting indiscriminately in armies and circuses. He was a bricklayer in Cyprus, a stevedore in Marseille, a deserter from the Dutch army in Batavia; a trader, gunrunner, explorer and attempted slave trader in Africa. In 1891, grievously ill, he returned to France to die. Enid Starkie, a lecturer at Oxford, has devoted most of her energy to Rimbaud, and this book is a revised and expanded version of her magnum opus. As a biography...
...into a suitcase?" she asked. Looking at her trim 5-ft., 100-lb. figure, Bernd gulped his drink and said they could try. If caught, Maria thought it meant three years in jail for her, ten for Bernd. "They'd accuse you of being a Western slave trader." They paid $6.50 for a brown plasterboard suitcase that...