Word: households
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Road to Damascus. For the first time, the Arab world was glimpsing the sickening possibility of defeat. Fat effendis in tasseled tarbooshes and doublebreasted business suits were streaming from Jerusalem in new American sedans that swayed under the load of rolled-up Turkish rugs and bundled household goods. Their escape route led past Gethsemane and Bethany to the Dead Sea, through Jericho, across the shallow Jordan by Allenby Bridge to Arab Trans-Jordan; then, past caravans of sneering camels, to the crowded, expensive hotels of Damascus and Beirut...
ARABESQUE (312 pp.)-Geoffrey Household-Little, Brown...
...Pollster Gallup has been finding needles in the U.S. haystack for the past twelve years. Other pollsters, like Elmo Roper and Archibald Crossley, have been doing it just as long. But George Gallup's four-a-week releases to 126 U.S. newspapers have made the "Gallup Poll" a household word and Gallup the Babe Ruth of the polling profession...
...blossomed with flags and bunting reached full flower as George VI and Queen Elizabeth rode in state from Buckingham Palace to St. Paul's and back. The occasion: their silver wedding anniversary. The King and Queen (and Princess Margaret) rode in a gold and crimson coach behind the household cavalry and full-dress Guards, helmeted and plumed, on jet horses. After them came a coach with Elizabeth and Philip. Salutes were fired; cheering crowds jam-packed the sidewalks...
...Recreation Service. For the past three years, however, it has been completely self-sustaining. It has no stock company, there are only five paid employees, three of whom frequently act in the plays. The other actors, in their daylight hours, follow the more respectable pursuits of the business and household world, emerging at night under the warm magic of the footlights into quite different creatures. During the past eight seasons the Tributary has introduced many spectators to little-known plays of Barrie, O'Neill, Ibsen, Shaw, and even Shakespeare...