Word: wheelbarrows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...play." His name is Berenger -lonesco's Everyman, who was the clerk in Rhinoceros, the clown in The Airborne Pedestrian. With typical lonesco chronology, King Berenger is about 400 years old, but his reign seems to span thousands of years. He is credited with inventing the wheelbarrow, designing the airplane, splitting the atom, and writing Shakespeare's plays. Once decked in splendor, his throne room is now crumbling in decay. Once rich and powerful, his kingdom is now poor, famished and depopulated. His erstwhile magnificent army has dwindled to a single guard, and life-the ultimate deserter...
...have always respected. Buddhist shrines were defaced; schools were ordered closed for six months (to revise curriculums along purely Maoist lines). Respect for womanhood and religion was forcibly forgotten. Into British-controlled Hong Kong came eight victims: exhausted Franciscan nuns, one of whom died after being thrown onto a wheelbarrow and harshly trundled across the border...
...whisk broom and dental pick to unearth a fragile, 700-year-old skeleton in a kiva (chamber) of an ancient Pueblo Indian settlement in wildest Arizona. Lynda roughed it with a team from the University of Arizona excavating near a place called Grasshopper. And while she was rolling that wheelbarrow around, guess what Sister Luci Baines was doing for wheels back in Washington: varooming through town in a new 350-h.p. Corvette Sting Ray, a high-school graduation birthday present (she turns 18 July 2) from her parents. "How do you like your new car?" asked an imaginative newsman...
...continent to gawk. For two summers, while spectators placed bets on his fate (and sometimes cut his supporting cables to improve the odds), the dapper Frenchman sashayed back and forth on his rope, drinking champagne (he once cooked an omelet 150 ft. above the falls), turning somersaults, pushing a wheelbarrow while riding a bicycle, even carrying his manager across on his back. Once Blondin stumped across on stilts, a display of bravado that won him $400 from the future King Edward...
Walk a few steps past the American history monographs on the fourth level of Widener's stacks and you will find yourself amid such engaging titles as The Vice Czar Murders, Death in the Wheelbarrow, The Corpse Wore a Wig, and Who Cut the Colonel's Throat? You are looking at some of the nearly 2000 detective novels from the 1930's and early 1940's that the University shelves with other fiction in the PZ section. And although Widener's librarians are doubtless more comfortable thinking of these books as the George A. Reisner Collection, official terminology cannot disguise...