Word: walkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want. With cash in his jeans, the U.S. farmer is turning into such a smart dresser that store clerks often cannot tell the difference between city and farm customers. His wife has already digested Vogue and the latest Paris fashions. Says Mrs. Nadean Reynolds, who had to park and walk eight blocks to her dress shop in Maryville, Mo. (pop. 6,834) last week: "I didn't mind. The parking spaces were taken up by customers. A chemise among the cornstalks isn't news any more...
...most numerous are the Newton types. Popped on the head by the apples of sinister circumstance, they gravitate to solutions by prodigies of deduction. Amateur Detective Ambrose Usher, an Oxford don, is different. Says a baffled friend: "Things don't happen to you: you happen to things. You walk into a perfectly quiet situation . . ." Replies Ambrose: "Oh, dear. Yes, yes. It may be. I'm the apple itself, perhaps. What an awkward role...
...Limb. In Roehampton, England, when one-legged Convict Glyn Peters was taken to a hospital and fitted with an artificial leg, he followed the doctor's suggestion that he walk around and try it, sauntered right out of the building and escaped...
...days a week Berrigan himself spins out a column of whimsy on such themes as Thailand's heat ("A neighbor's pig was unwise enough to walk into the sun, and the sun rendered him down to a shoat") and the pleasures of ignoring a watch ("We sit here thinking we have plenty of time because the sun is where it is, and the shadow of our pencil is falling at the plenty-of-time angle"). Occasionally Berrigan forgoes his humor, reports with fascination on subjects like dawn coming to a Thai village: "In the quiet hour before...
...attractive, loaded with money-who lives all alone, next door to Buckingham Palace, in an apartment the size of an armory, with nothing but a couple of dozen Picassos and Rouaults and Dufys to keep her company, and a devoted Rolls-Royce to follow her whenever she takes a walk. Grant plays a wizard of international finance -world-renowned, spectacularly attractive, loaded with money-who falls in love with the girl, and expresses his affection in those little things that women appreciate so much: yachts, paintings, diamond bracelets...