As she got up to leave, she handed me a Christmas card. “This is for you,” she said as she kissed me on the cheek. I walked her to her car and waved as she pulled away. When I opened her card, I gasped i...
So why did he take on a challenge to beat his own record so soon Because in 【6】(四月), a Canadian had been two of his ten records, the longest distance travelled on an unmoving bike in 70 hours and in 128 hours. Pascal 【7】(决定)he had to take back what was his.Pascal Pich...
the one that held the two mortgages she paid off with her spouse. The bank rejected her. Now that she’s single, she doesn’t meet their minimum income requirements. Her years in the States mean she doesn’t have a Canadian credit rating. ...
There was more to the show for Kingsley to review. I hadn’t realized that as late as 1925, theaters still had mixed bills, with a vaudeville act in addition to a movie. Dancer Gilda Gray appeared in a revue that was “snappy, clever, not a dull moment.” Her specialty was the shim...
At that time also I met a lot of the piano players. Errol, Errol Garner, Dave Brubeck. Ralph Watkins introduced Dave Brubeck for the first time in New York. Errol Garner, Dave Brubeck, “Canadian Sunset,” Eddie Haywood, Dorothy Donegan, ...
Just before dinner, Major Wentworth Caswell found me.It was impossible to avoid him.He insisted on buying me a drink and pulled two one-dollar bills from his pocket.Again I saw a torn dollar fixed with blue paper, with a corner missing.It was the one I gave Uncle Caesar.How strange,I...
Also describes after-market material inserted into the book, such as newsprint articles, gift cards, hundred dollar bills, etc. Leaf. A single page in a book. Limp Binding. Found on books that will never stand proudly on a shelf. Usually suede. The word emasculated comes to mind. ...
There were dollar bills, one hundred of them, taped all over that tree.Think of all the garden flowers I could buy with one hundred dollars! There was also a note attached:“I still do something for you.Love, Marvin.” Marvin kept his promise, too.He dug up a nice ten-by-fifteen ...
The Canadian men's hockey team faced substantial pressure at the 2010 Olympics hosted in their nation's Vancouver. The gold-medal game against their neighbors to the south was tied 2-2 after regulation. Who better to clinch the title thanSid the Kid with an overtime game-winner in front ...
Crime Wave(1985)– A silent screenwriter who can only complete beginnings and endings struggles to create the great Canadian “colour crime movie” Cube(1997)– Five strangers wake up in a hi-tech booby-trapped cube, with no idea who built it or why ...