Word: greys
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...beach at the fashionable resort of Guincho, near Lisbon, a fisherman's dog dug into the sand, uncovered a shallow grave in which lay the body of a man. He had been shot in the back of the head and through the heart, was dressed in a sweater, grey trousers and black shoes-placed on the wrong feet. The dead man was identified as Captain Jose Santos...
...stay married." For years, he usually prowled the farm before breakfast. But he gave up the custom when a disorder of his leg muscles forced him to walk with a cane. Now he usually does some paperwork in the library before being chauffeured to work in his 1958 grey Oldsmobile station wagon. The watchful eyes of his father and uncle stare down at him from the walls of his 19th-floor office...
...dance, or try to." It is an apt description of his prose and his life, though scarcely of the man. At 48, Durrell is a short (5 ft. 3½ in.), chunky (145 Ibs.) man with clear blue eyes, thick blond-grey hair and a blunt face. Though his forebears were Irish Protestants, Durrell began his whirling-dervish life in India, where his engineer father helped build the Darjeeling Railway and died when Larry was 17. Recalls Durrell: "We lived the life which Kipling romanticized in Kim. All day long, processions of lamas passed my school whirling prayer wheels...
...This grey, depressing tale is saved by Author Braine's sure knowledge of his characters. He is unpitying as he sketches their fretful struggles to swim free of the muddy currents of ordinariness that surround ordinary Englishmen. Their speech rings as true as the clink of cheap teacups, their attempts at gaiety have all the poor authority of weak beer...
Then all of a sudden, she saw some jerk she knew on the other side of the lobby. Some guy in one of those very dark grey flannel suits and one of those checkered vests. Strictly Ivy League. Big Deal...