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Chaucer's Wife of Bath seems as rosy and real-and surprising-a person to most readers as a vaudeville queen in a broken-down daisy chain. Last week the lusty Wife and all her fellow travelers went on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery...
Roads of Escape. Inflation-battered Fulano de Tal, the common man, was so weary of cramming into broken-down trolleys, standing in line for tea, and going without a new shirt that he was apt to buy a cheap bottle of vino and say to hell with it all. Or, working at 75? a day in Lota's undersea coal mines where cave-ins occur almost daily, and living in a hillside of hovels where each year more babies die than are born, he turned to Communism...
Passenger facilities at airports are usually inadequate or worse. Chicago's is "a slum. Chewing gum, orange peel, papers and cigar butts strew the floor around the stacks of baggage. ... To rest the thousands there are exactly 28 broken-down leather seats. One must line up even for the rest rooms...
...farmer and hear his side. Almost all farm boys were inducted eventually. Farmers who remained were generally ineligible-disabled or too old. Hired hands who were ineligible almost all deserted the farms to work in the high-pay defense plants. The farmer had to work twice as hard with broken-down machinery which was irreplaceable, not 8 but 14 or 16 hours a day, his sons in the service, his daughters in the defense plants, his wife on the tractor; only his dog was loafing. . . . Compelling the wheat grower to sell his wheat at an arbitrary price is as unfair...
Revolving Doors. Elizabeth Arden is a dreamed-up name. She was born-in the little Ontario village of Woodbridge-with the far more implausible name of Florence Nightingale Graham.* Her father was a huckster whose eccentricity was to use only broken-down thoroughbreds to pull his wagon. Flo tried out as a dentist's assistant and a student nurse in Toronto before traveling to New York in 1906. It was a time when a woman's beauty equipment consisted chiefly of glycerin and rose water; for a woman to "paint" was almost as outrageous...