Word: trash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This chronicle is saved from its own shoddiness. and sometimes even becomes compelling reading, because of a kind of innocence and spoiled-childishness amid the trash. After losing a TV job (to Faye Emerson) because she showed up drunk for the first show, Diana muses with a terribly revealing naivete: "For months, everywhere I looked, stories and interviews and photographs of Faye Emerson leaped out at me. Her name was like a dagger. You fool, you idiot! It could have been you on the cover of Look, of Cosmopolitan . . . It could have been...
...Sunset Handicap in 1951). But, Brewster insisted, he intended all the while to pay the union back-still does. The trouble is that he does not really know how much he owes, since-Brewster said-a janitor had mistaken the Western Conference's pre-1954 records for trash (Brewster and the Teamsters' International President Dave Beck being under income-tax investigation at the time) and thrown them away...
...year). Seventeen times in the past ten months, as the index trembled toward 149.1, white-goateed Socialist Ramadier forced it down by devices ranging from a 20% slash in the Paris price of government-owned cooking gas to abolition of the tax which Parisians pay for street cleaning and trash collection...
Most readers, and most officials concerned with the hillbilly headache, applauded Norma Lee. Scores of Southerners-including some who have migrated from the -same areas themselves-wrote to explain that the folks who made the trouble were "poor white trash," "Michigan farmers," "a lower grade of people that are not exactly civilized." But the heaviest response came from hillbillies who had heard about the series. They called Norma Lee-with embellishments -"nigger-lover," "sewer rat," "D.P.," "Communist," "garbage picker," threatened her with fates ranging from poisoning via "Southern-fried chicken in arsenic" to dismemberment at the hands of "us woman...
...change. Fish are still scooped from the trawlers with pitchforks that damage much of the catch, trundled off in ancient, scale-covered wooden carts, dumped into insanitary oak barrels. The Fulhams plan to install modern handling equipment, are also constructing the pier's first rendering plant to convert trash fish into meal for animal food and fertilizer, thus give the fleet a profitable incentive to go after porgies and other cheap fish when good fish are scarce...