Word: dayes
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...never finding it. The boy loathed school in Hannibal, Mo. As he later let Huck Finn put it: "At first I hated the school, but by and by I got so I could stand it. Whenever I got uncommon tired, I played hookey, and the hiding I got next day done me good and cheered me up." Clemens himself fled school by the time...
Churchill typifies the son fulfilling "a parental daydream." When Lord Randolph Churchill's political career collapsed, 13-year-old Winston vowed: "My father was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and I mean to be the same one day." The lad burned to help his father "in every fight on every march." Said Winston at his father's death in 1895: "The dunce of the family will take revenge on the whole pack of curs and traitors...
...York City stores fell 1% behind last year in the first full week in December, although New York's Lord &; Taylor scored the best single sale day in its history. But last week New York was hit by heavy snows that kept shoppers at home-except for those hunting overshoes, gloves and overcoats. Boston also was blizzarded. To catch up, downtown Boston stores stayed open Saturday night for the first time in history...
...draws the biggest promotional splash, the carriage trade is only a small fraction of Neiman-Marcus' business. "We are geared to sell the oilman," says Marcus, "but even more, the oilman's secretary." Still, it is the very special sale that pleases him most. In one working day last week, Marcus came up with the gift for the "man who has everything, including a hangover," and sold a portable oxygen tank. Another customer who wanted "something new" got a watch specially made without numbers (it had only a single black dot). And then, of course, "the wife...
...EDGE OF DAY, by Laurie Lee. An English poet describes his poverty-stricken boyhood in Britain's Cotswolds with great good humor and lyrical delight...