Word: venetian
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...fourth Crusade was turned-by the cunning of its Venetian outfitters and the headlong cupidity of the expeditionaries -into a campaign against Christians. The Crusaders wound up sacking invitingly weak Constantinople, until then the greatest Christian city on earth...
Recently, Mansure walked by the GSA building and was shocked at "the unsightly appearance caused by the lack of uniformity in the position of the Venetian blinds." To avoid offending the esthetic glances of tourists, he decreed that all Venetian blinds in his building would be arranged just so (halfway up in the daytime, all the way down at night), promised "periodic inspections . . . to assure compliance." Then he found that many Government workers were writing on only one side of paper. His next order: memos will be typed or printed on both sides. As every bureaucrat knows, writing on both...
Conceivably, then, millions of Americans will live in the happy, independent state of James W. Lowry, 45, of Cleveland, purchasing agent for Republic Steel Corp. Over the years, he has built his daughter a wood-paneled game room, installed a new furnace in his home, made Venetian blinds for all the windows, laid a concrete drive, screened in the front porch, made a suite of bedroom furniture and slipcovers for chairs, built a snowplow, and rigged a darkroom for his other hobby, photography. Says Lowry, in the independent voice of all his breed: "I don't believe...
...patiently nurses the complaining invalid wife-why does he make a number of trips out into the rain, one at 2 a.m., carrying his sample-suitcase? And why, all the next day, does he not go into the bedroom to see his wife? And why do the Venetian blinds in the bedroom stay drawn...
...sports in between part-time jobs. He played baseball on American Legion teams at 11, was a semi-pro at 14 (mainly because of his ability with a bat), and still found time to help support his family. For a while he was a slat-painter in a venetian-blind factory...