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...told in the personal, random style of a farmer's almanac. Animal husbandry alternates with tributes to his wife; poetic fervor ("you want to sing, dance, yell, get drunk, and pray") is mixed with the technique of shearing; observations on the sexual prowess of rams with gossip about his neighbors; market conditions with a description of bathing with his wife in washtubs ("one felt it as something out of Daumier or Cruikshank, of Degas or Rembrandt"); dissertations on the weather with proposed reforms for farmers' dress (kilts and beard...
Besides complete coverage of the Rabbits' athletic activities, an editorial page, and a news story, there were two gossip columns, one concerned with sports entitled "Carrots and Lettuce" and Halter Hinchell's column which spared no facts in the Bunnie's private lives...
...surprised and pleased by the new exchange proposal. The Conway committee was made up of three exchange members, two nonmember partners and four outsiders, of whom one was New Dealer Adolf A. Berle Jr. and another, Publisher Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal. Last week Wall Street gossip gave Vice Chairman Trowbridge Callaway most credit for the committee's success. Their conclusion: "It is apparent to us that the organization of the New York Stock Exchange should be revised to accord with changing times and conditions." Their major proposals...
...community where queer behavior, tightfistedness, sadistic gossip and such were taken for granted, the Wikker family stood out. The scorching tongue of squat, black-eyed Widow Semiramis was matched by the stinginess of her frail, bullying sister Ann, who said when her husband died: 'Th' worst of it is I wasted a chicken on him yesterday." Rich Farmer Ezekiel Wikker was as mean as his sisters but added a manly lust and a thirst for hard liquor...
Dorothea's life was a matter of going to dull parties, visiting the King at Brighton, picking up scraps of gossip, nattering the King's fat mistress, patching up quarrels between, Austrian supporters, suffering boredom, nervousness, tantrums and fears of revolution, then making fun of everybody and everything to Metternich. Because she did so with a mixture of malice, snobbishness, impatience, heartlessness and occasional humdrum housewifely humor, her private letters make a lively book, packed with characterizations that, a novelist could envy. Thus she describes the conversation of her diplomatic rival, the clumsy, ill-favored wife...