Word: bostonians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wagner, a Bostonian with a Brooklyn accent, who directs publicity for the Committee, burst into the room shouting, "Ozimanski for President...
...thinner than ever. The heroine of The Catherine Wheel is Katharine Congreve, rich, lovely, kind and altogether admirable. Her problem is a not uncommon one, in or out of fiction: in her late 30s and unmarried, she gets a proposal of marriage from John Shipley, like herself a rich Bostonian, and the first man she ever loved. The catch is that he is married to her cousin, that all three are old friends, and that Katharine dearly loves the three children of John and Maeve Shipley...
...more hopeful than the man bringing in the latest well. He is John Fox, a 44-year-old Bostonian who has whooshed up in the world of high finance almost as fast as his gas. He and his companies have brought in 27 wells in the Pennsylvania area, are planning to drill "a great many" more. But Fox is much more than a gas man. His multitudinous deals, financial maneuverings and big paper profits have already made him something of a mystery man of high finance...
Boston's Blight. Secretly, Henry Adams yearned to be an improper Bostonian. He dragged the ball & chain of his birth with him wherever he went, but he always recognized it for the burden it was. "Boston is a curious place. Its business in life is to breed and to educate. The parent lives for his children; the child, when educated himself, becomes a parent, or becomes an educator, or is both . . . Nothing ever comes of it all. There is no society worth the name, no wit, no intellectual energy . . . Everything is respectable, and nothing amusing. There are no outlaws...
...clothes. The women all laugh, but they are obviously wooden dolls, badly made, and can only cackle, clatter . . . and hop or slide in heelless straw sandals across floors . . . I believe the Mikado laughs when his ministers have a cabinet council." One Japanese item was no laughing matter for a Bostonian: "I was a bit aghast when one young woman called my attention to a temple as a remains of phallic worship; but what can one do? . . . One cannot quite ignore the foundations of society...