Word: tobacconist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went to one shop, for olive oil or wine to another. She could not buy pork where she bought veal. If she wanted sausages, she could not expect to find eggs at a nearby counter. After both industries became state monopolies, she had to go to the neighborhood tobacconist to buy salt. Each day she had to visit up to a dozen different shops to buy just enough food to last until the next day. Each day shopping for food alone took anything up to four hours...
...there is humor too-often right in the midst of misfortune, as in what might be called "Coming Home from the Funeral." And there is small-boy adventure, whether with girls or tram rides or being sent to the tobacconist's for "an ounce of Cavendish cut-plug." O'Casey everywhere respects the dignity of childhood as a full existence in itself, as he recaptures a boy's hazy sense that a world offered by Victorian grownups as square is, all the same round...
Among the other originals: Flaubert's Madame Bovary (Madame Delphine Delamare, the faithless young wife of a middle-aged doctor who had studied medicine under Flaubert's father); Edgar Allan Foe's Marie Roget (Mary Cecilia Rogers, a beautiful clerk in a tobacconist's shop Poe patronized); Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Deacon William Brodie, by day a respectable Edinburgh town councilman who at night led a notorious gang of thieves and kept two mistresses). Most of them were interesting people; some were fascinating. But they all have one thing...
Last week, 15 years after the death of Charles Demuth, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art got around to giving him a big exhibition. The 168 paintings and drawings on display proved the Lancaster, Pa. tobacconist's boy to have been among the nation's top moderns. In his lifetime Demuth was much admired by a small circle of artists, critics and collectors. But Demuth (rhymes with see tooth) never made much of a dent on the public...