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...swimming-pool pumpers, went right to work. In recent weeks, Allied also supplied a cotton candymaker for a children's party, searched for a woman's contact lenses in vacuum cleaner dust, drew up estimates for the cost of building a pool and shelter-house for a duck that a twelve-year-old camper brought back from camp...
...constantly engaged in trying to talk more grandly than its parents did ... It is painful to experience. It is like trying to force a left-handed child to use his right." In Britain, even the anti-snobs feel like snobs, and no matter how a man may dodge or duck, no matter what his protective coloration or self-effacement, "however warily, modestly, gently you tread, some snob or other will find a category for you, and drop you into your class like a wayward pea returned...
...from a garter, that Homer used as models. There were his old watercolor brushes, a newly discovered sketch book, a rumpled storm cap, a fishing net he used as a prop. These were the artist's simple possessions-and for long periods of time, his only companions. "That Duck Pond." To his friends, there was always something of a mystery about why he suddenly quit New York and withdrew to Maine. Some said it was because he wanted to cut down on his drinking; others claimed he was miffed at the critics; Homer himself said it was to escape...
...happiest when he could go out in a storm, "robed head to foot in rubber," and when the ocean calmed down he contemptuously referred to it as "that duck pond." Though he traveled each year, he would stay up in Maine by himself until just before Christmas. The wind howled around him, the temperature dropped to 12 below. But Winslow Homer was happy...
...saying, Dwight Eisenhower lobbied hard on the biggest issue confronting the 83rd annual convention of the American Bar Association: whether the A.B.A. should stand by its 13-year-old condemnation of the so-called Connally Reservation, which weakens U.S. participation in the World Court and encourages other nations to duck World Court jurisdiction...