Word: postman
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...gambling house in no man's land. When a new game of fantan or mah-jongg is about to begin, gamblers from the Chinese side quickly pad over the bridge without having to pass the French check point. Every afternoon at 3 o'clock Tonghing's postman comes across to collect the mail. China's postal service there is so bad that many Tonghingers, and even people as far away as Canton, have their mail addressed to them care of Moncay...
Special Delivery. In West Orange, N.J., Postman Daniel Fineran, stung by a wasp while delivering the morning mail, asked a housewife for first aid, was bitten...
...service, and 2) reported out a bill by which the reduction order could be forbidden by law. Since the Senate Appropriations Committee was also on the verge of adding $28 million to the postal budget, it seemed certain that all concerned could claim a political victory and that the postman would still ring twice...
...friends (who call him Tom or "Old Possum"), T. S. Eliot is a considerate, avuncular Puck who writes rhymes about cats to entertain their children and likes to address letters in verse ("Postman, propel thy feet/And take this note to greet / The Mrs. Hutchinson / Who lives in Charlotte Street . . ."). Eliot is a devoted Sherlock Holmes fan, is apt to emerge from his room clad in Holmesian dressing gown and slippers, and address his startled friend: "My dear Hayward, I am put in-mind of the incident in Bosnia, at the time of our struggle with the Professor over the Crown...