Word: neighboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening slippers she hopes to fill. Gwen was never invited to Perle's parties, although Perle received several invitations from Gwen. Washington gossips like to say that when Perle took a house not far from the Cafritzes, Gwen promptly phoned her, said: "Now that you're a neighbor, I suppose I'll be seeing more of you." Replied Perle: "I suppose...
...Brian Robertson, now to be in high commissioner's mufti, has been firm and unruffled as British military governor. Scholarly, 62-year-old Andre François-Poncet, Ambassador to Berlin from 1931 to 1938, is one of those surprisingly numerous Frenchmen who want Germany as a good neighbor rather than as a chained foe. He has written: "With a little imagination, a little courage and good will, the problem of Germany can be solved. He who risks nothing wins nothing...
...often walked just a few feet ahead of him on his way to the railroad station-the man to whom Richard always wanted to speak, but never dared. Later Richard suspected him (correctly) of having delivered the mysterious sealed manuscript to his office. After their first formal meeting on Neighbor Sharpy Cullen's terrace, Richard encountered That Man many times-in his home, on his walks, even wearing the cap of a Manhattan taxi driver...
...postscript to Richard's story, written by Neighbor Sharpy Cullen, reveals something intended to carry walloping significance for the reader: Richard Tolman's real name was Toulemonde-everybody. It is doubtful that this information will prevent all the survivors of Mr. Morley's withering crossfire of literary quotations, rhymed commentaries, reflections on women and craw-sticking puns from realizing that in the latest Morley novel they have been fed a fuzzy allegory that pretends much and says little...
Test Case. In Renton, Wash., explaining that he did not want to knock at a neighbor's door to see if his brother and sister were inside, Roy M. Redfield, 18, admitted setting fire to the barn "so I could tell when everyone...