Word: trickyness
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In the right little, tight little parishes of England last week, devout Anglican Church folk again buzzed about the Duke of Windsor. Curates placed the tips of their fingers together and cast up their eyebrows. It will certainly be awkward, they opined, for the Bishop of Nassau, Dr. John Dauglish...
It was late-4:19 p.m.-before Prime Minister Churchill retired at the end of the question period. He had put the House of Commons in a gay mood by his deft handling of tricky questions. As the speaker left the chair, the sergeant at arms, dressed in court black...
Last week, as Atlantic City sweltered under the year's record heat (98°), the almost ail-American Youth Orchestra gave its first concert. Five thousand sunburned boardwalkers listened, quietly sweating in the municipal Convention Hall. As the healthy-looking, white-clad youngsters swung into a tricky Bach Fugue...
Last week, before 7,000 eyewitnesses, the prestige of U. S. sport pickers was put to a test. On Detroit's dog-tiring, tricky Oakland Hills course, Gene Sarazen's "leftouts" teed up against Walter Hagen's "ins" in a two-day challenge match under Ryder Cup...
THE MIXTURE AS BEFORE - W. Somerset Maugham -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Ten stories, which he says will be his last, told with the elderly tartness and urbanity for which the author (last reported escaped from Paris to Gibraltar) is famed. All are infallibly readable, and if tricky, transparently so.