Word: waterers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...last week many Frenchmen got their mail late or not at all. Trains, buses and planes ran behind schedule or were canceled. In some places, it was impossible to register a birth, take out a marriage license or even obtain a permit to bury the dead. Because of falling water pressures, many tenants on upper floors of apartment buildings had to forgo washing. Millions of unscrubbed schoolchildren obtained an extra bonanza in the form of a holiday from school; teachers were on strike...
Seventy-three years have passed since a young teacher in Alabama held her little pupil's hand under a flowing pump spout and manually spelled out the word "water" upon the palm of blind, deaf Helen Keller. Last week Miss Keller, almost 80, went to Radcliffe College for the in formal dedication of the Anne Sullivan Memorial Fountain, which flows in the Helen Keller Garden that was presented to her at the 50th reunion of her class ('04). Before feeling the water, Miss Kel ler smiled mistily, read a Braille inscrip tion at the back of the fountain...
...them down, scrubs them up and presents them, in deadly earnest, as pioneers in the great American tradition, as "The Young Bohemians . . . the makers of the future." Unhappily, the notion is so translucently ludicrous and the picture so poorly put together that in box-office terms all this cold-water flattery will probably get the moviemakers nowhere...
...WATER OF LIFE (621 pp.]-Henry Morton Robinson-Simon & Schuster...
...dialogue deathless, and the drink strong at all times. Novelist Robinson populates his pages with gamblers, gypsies, whores, cutpurses, counterfeiters, country maidens, Mafia men. Harvard professors, necrophiles, lesbians, and good, honest Indiana farmers. He afflicts them variously with lust, greed, chronic childbirth, madness, lung surgery and death by water, gunshot, prolonged beating and Addison's disease. As it is customary for costume novelists to concern themselves also with a certain amount of factual information-the politics of Lorenzo's court, or the intra-igloo mores of Eskimos-Robinson acquaints his readers along the way with the history...