Word: shop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small square of muddy city land, sandwiched between a machine shop and a warehouse, stand the murky stables of Gopal Ganpat, Bombay dairyman. Inside the stables, 300 buffalo cows are jammed flank to flank, and behind the stables, fringed by manure, is the pool where Ganpat washes himself, his cows, and his milk containers. "He probably uses the same water to adulterate his milk," said a government guide to a newsman last week...
Finally, early this-year, an agent heard that a Paul Hansen was buying two lots near Grayslake, Ill. The Secret Service found that Hansen was Hugo. He was operating a small photographic shop in Chicago. The Secret Service trailed him for 2½ months, watching for his first suspicious move. Two weeks ago grey-haired, 57-year-old Hugo began buying copper sulphate, dry-cell batteries, and other telltale equipment. He was planning to make "one last batch." He hoped to pass it, build a house and settle down to the joys of being an honest man. Last week Secret...
Signs of the new Westernization are everywhere. The front platforms of the streetcars are adorned with Coca-Cola signs, beneath which yellow-robed monks ride lest they be contaminated by the presence of women inside the cars. Every tenth shop on New Street (one of the oldest thoroughfares) seems to be an X-ray shop. The Siamese are the most X-raying people in the world. They go to a doctor, then rush to have an X-ray to see if the doctor guessed right...
...spent a year in Italy, "drawing animals mostly. The monkey in The Barber Shop I drew first during that time. I hadn't any money. I remember looking in a candy-shop window and thinking that if ever I was rich I'd come back and buy some." At last a great-uncle who lived in Brooklyn succeeded in getting him to the U.S. He began making money at once at commercial art, and "in 1940 a girl friend whom I knew for many years in Vienna came over and we got married...
Bell quotes a letter received recently from a friend who had moved to a new parish: "The church here has everything, from an exquisite chapel to a gymnasium and a manual-training shop for young Episcopalians to enjoy themselves in. There is money all over the place . . . It's impressive all right; but ... it seems more like a social club." There are many such rich parishes, writes Bell, in which Christ is genteelly revered and His upsetting utterances muffled. "The vulgarity of the Gospels is concealed by the quaintness of the King James version; the dynamite of the Eucharist...