Word: stranding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House on the Strand, du Maurier...
...First is an exhibit of the famous New Orleans pirate Jean Laffite. Laffite is standing life-size with an old New Orleans Hat Spanish cowboy hat on. His hair is human hair, imported from Central Europe, inserted one strand at a time with a special needle. His eyes are medical eyes imported from Germany. Laffite was a well-respected pirate who was promised a lot of money by the British Navy in return for his helping them to attack New Orleans in 1814. He double-crossed the British and helped the Americans. That won him a pardon from the President...
After "two free drinks at each party," the tourists and their dates were offered dinner for two at proper Simpson's-in-the-Strand, temporary membership and gambling privileges at the Victoria Sporting Club, a pair of tickets to a West End musical or play, and free admission to eleven dizzy discotheques and five dance halls. Ticket holders would also be entitled to hotel reservations, private bath and "full English breakfast," though it was not promised that the "scientifically chosen" date would share those. Surprisingly enough, the seemingly irresistible BOAC tour did not get off the ground...
...introducing the idea of 45-minute shows aimed at the young. Based on Billboard magazine's hot-record charts, radio's Hit Parade will be turned into a new pop-music show, The Music Scene. Then, before viewers switch their dials, The New People will strand a planeload of youngsters on an abandoned Pacific island for another 45 minutes every week...
...great-grandfather Andrew Bowen, who was born in 1732, was a small Irish farmer (three inches taller than Keats) and thought about sex all the time. He thought about it with the kine in the byre, with the peat in the bog and with the kelp on the strand; and sometimes at night he would rouse himself on his pallet with a dreadful groan, exclaiming, "Oh, I am thinking about sex again!" This was so painful to his mother and father and three living grandparents, who slept like spoons in the big bed beside and slightly above his pallet, that...