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...rest of the money in a paper bag, they went to Grand Central Terminal, and pushed it into a rented locker. Then, moving from one swank Fifth Avenue shop to another, and handing startled taxi drivers $5 to $10 tips in the process, they engaged in a surrealistic shopping spree...
Sensible Bernard Clark, meanwhile, has been making hay. After giving Ethel a gay spree at the "Gaierty Hotel," he proposes to her outside Windsor Castle. "If you say no," he warns, "I shall perforce dash my body to the brink of yon muddy river." But Ethel gladly accepts. "You are to me like a Heathen god," she tells Bernard. He kisses her and she falls in a swoon...
Last week, less than 48 hours after he had taken office, Christenberry got a fine example of just what Columnist Smith was talking about: the featherweight championship fight between Sandy Saddler and Willie Pep. After nine rounds of butting, thumbing, gouging-and one wild wrestling spree which brought the referee down in a free-for-all tangle-Pep sullenly threw in the towel...
...sinister shadow play of symbols, Green tries to suggest that life is more than a kittenish spree. A pigeon falls dead on the first page; Julia worries endlessly about not packing her good luck charms, "her egg with the elephants in it, her wooden pistol and her little painted top"; a spindly mystery man gibbers in changing dialects about the grave illness of somebody's stricken aunt. Like signposts in limbo, these point everywhere and nowhere. And Party Going's old-fashioned pastime-noodling flea-brained upper-class Britons-is next door to limbo. Writing this novel...
Irish Bob came out of his corner like a windmill on a spree, uncorked a left which started from his shoe tops and sent Maxim reeling into the ropes. Someone brayed, "You got him already, Murph!" and the crowd was on its feet, roaring for the early kill. But Maxim bounced right back, set about giving Challenger Murphy a thorough lesson in the art of boxing. He began stinging Murphy with neat jabs, by the third round had Irish Bob's right eye swollen to a mere slit. When Murphy tried to close with the champion, Maxim tied...