Word: wheelbarrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shakers distrusted the ornamental; they avoided both "carpenter Gothic" and Victorian arabesques. Their furniture is functional to a T, and yet their tools are subtly shaped to charm the eye and hand. The Shaker wheelbarrow opposite, for example, looks as elegantly clean-lined as a Ferrari...
Splash in the Night. Everyone was delighted when Humorist Benchley moved in, accompanied by Columnist John McClain, who trundled Bob from party to party in a wheelbarrow when walking was out of the question. At the Garden Benchley created some of his most memorable epigrams. There, when a friend said that drink was a slow poison, Bob, nose down in a beaker of martinis, answered: "That's all right. I'm in no hurry...
Barrow of Fun. In Jefferson City, Mo., convicts at the state penitentiary, lacking a telephone booth, stacked 17 men in one wheelbarrow...
...sure-death glacier route. Even those who found great wealth often lost it, to gamblers, business crooks, the girls, or over the bars. Carmack died respectably, leaving his second wife, a former brothel-keeper, a fortune. But Lucky Swede Anderson, divorced by his dance-hall girl, died pushing a wheelbarrow in a sawmill for $3.25 a day. Lucky always denied that he ever had a million: "The most I ever had was nine hundred thousand...
...economics, went on to take his doctor's degree at Frankfurt University under a liberal professor who taught that "free enterprise is the essence." One of his most vivid memories is the postwar inflation, which wiped out his parents' savings, became so bad that it took a wheelbarrow full of marks to buy a suit of clothes. The experience made him a devout believer in the sound mark. His wife still remembers their marriage in 1923 as taking place "ten days after the currency reform," which replaced the worthless mark with...