Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hart lives with his mother, whom he describes as "a sweet, menacing old lady" on middle-class Central Park West, scowls at white ties, gives manners-be-damned, whiskey-by-the-case, all-night free-for-alls, gets bored with people and keeps picking up new ones. Rodgers takes the world in his stride; Hart is tempted to protest, fume, explain, deprecate - argues, for ex ample, with the desk-clerk of a Khartoum hotel because it does not carry Variety...
...exclamation point is a red light. Suggested classroom game: a punctuation court for trying traffic violators: e.g.: "John Jones, you are charged with the serious offense of passing a period." Another game: a row of pupils, each representing a part of speech, stands before a blackboard holding sheets of white paper over their heads. As a sentence is read, each part of speech jumps, like popping corn. A pupil who fails to pop at the right time goes to stand on the sidelines with an eraser on his head...
George MacDonald and Henry L. Doherty have long had much in common. They have known each other 30 years. Both got rich in utilities. Both have grey-white hair, blue-grey eyes, and are the same height. George is 63, Henry is 68. George says they have been so close that he used to get Henry's love letters, Henry his business letters. Last week George and Henry had a new common denominator- Florida and Bahama real estate...
When Major Buchan orders a family of slaves freed, Posey calls it sentimentality, sells them down the river and applies the money on Buchan debts. But when his own house servant (who is also his half brother) is shot for imputed rape. Posey shoots the white man, who is the narrator's oldest brother. As another result of Posey's following his own rather than the Buchan social codes, his wife is driven crazy. Yet the narrator withholds moral judgment; the tragedy, he concludes, is one in which Fate pulls the strings...
...witnesses in the new building, which is supervised by Vernon Struck, '38 last year's football star, declared that John White '42 left his room at midnight on Saturday, leaving his door ajar, and that the latter promptly blew shut, locking...