Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk, I realized he was the most intelligent man I had ever met. By the time we were over London and the dawn was coming up, he proposed to me. It was romantic and wonderful." Squiring Maria around Paris morning, noon and evening, Stone kept on proposing. On the tenth day she accepted, only to put in eleven months until Stone's divorce from Orlean came through. Since then Maria has traveled with Stone around the world, twice to South America, 33 times across the U.S. and 19 times across the Atlantic, laying out his clothes, pinning the right...
Gnaeus Robertulus Gravesa . . . was born in a suburban villa at the tenth milestone from Londinium, when L. Salisburi-us was sole Consul, in the year following the death of A. Tennisonianus Laureatus, whom the deified Victoria raised to patrician rank. It is handed down that the infant [wore] a beastlike scowl, which already gave assurance of ... a mute and cynical habit of mind...
Play As Prologue. Last week the battle was joined at Sloane Square's Royal Court Theatre, a small auditorium where advanced people gather to witness advanced plays. The current offering was The Tenth Chance, a first play by 25-year-old Stuart Holroyd, about a Norwegian resistance leader in World War II. By the middle of the last act, Holroyd's agnostic hero was beginning to find God in the extremity of his suffering at the hands of Nazi torturers. Up stood Christopher Logue, 31, a leftist poet passionately engaged in the campaign to ban the bomb...
Next day the critics panned The Tenth Chance. "Sadistic spinach," said Tynan in his column in the Sunday Observer...
Last week a Federal Reserve study of consumer finances showed that "while many consumers were pessimistic about business conditions, very few expected their own incomes to decline. Nearly three-quarters expected to be making as much or more at the beginning of next year; only one-tenth expected their rate of earnings to decline." Though consumers in 1958 plan to buy fewer houses, heavy appliances and new cars, the survey noted, they will spend more on used cars, furniture and home modernization. Retail sales for the year are 2% ahead of 1957, with a fat 7% increase in department-store...