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• Children’s author Roald Dahl almost died because of careless instructions. During World War II, he was told to fly to a certain airbase but when he arrived nothing was there because his instructions were off by 50 miles. Low on fuel and with night approaching, he decided to try to land the plane. He crashed, and he suffered serious head injuries. Fortunately, he managed to get out of the plane. The burning plane attracted the attention of some British soldiers and Mr. Dahl was taken to a military hospital.
• Dorothy Parker was cremated after her death. She greatly admired Martin Luther King, Jr., and she bequeathed her estate to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Her ashes are at the headquarters of the NAACP, which dedicated a memorial garden to her memory. The marker in the garden says, “This memorial garden is dedicated to her noble spirit, which celebrated the oneness of humankind and to the bonds of everlasting friendship between black and Jewish people.”
• As a man who has spent much time in the wilderness, Gary Paulsen, author of Hatchet, has seen corpses of people who have died of many things, including “blatant stupidity.” In one remarkable case, a man went cross-country skiing in the dead of winter but neglected to take along matches or a lighter. He broke his leg and froze to death, although enough wood was around him to have kept thousands of people warm.
• Robert Benchley and Charles MacArthur attended the funeral of a friend whose wake had been held in a third-floor walk-up apartment. After the service, the pallbearers picked up the coffin and started to carry it down a twisting staircase that forced them to hold the coffin in a slanted position. Watching them, Mr. Benchley commented, “Oh my, the change will fall out of his pocket.”
• A man asked Scottish poet Robert Burns to lend him his black coat so he could attend a funeral the following day. Mr. Burns replied that he would be attending that funeral, so he could not lend him his black coat. But he suggested, “I can recommend the most excellent substitute. Throw your character over your shoulders. That will be the blackest coat you ever wore in your lifetime.”
• While writing Roots, Alex Haley became depressed. He suffered from writer’s block, and he traveled on a ship to Africa, hoping that it would help him to write. One night, he thought about throwing himself overboard and drowning, but then he heard the voices of his ancestors, including Kunta Kinte and his grandmother, speak to him and tell him that he had to finish Roots.
• Quentin Crisp, author of The Naked Civil Servant, could be bitchy when confronted by public displays of grief over the deaths of celebrities whom the mourners did not know. When a crying woman ran into a cafe where Mr. Crisp was sitting and dramatically announced that the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas had died, Mr. Crisp asked, “Was he a relation of yours?”
Costermonger, coster, or costard is a street seller of fruit and vegetables in London and other British towns. The term is derived from the words costard (a medieval variety of apple) and monger (seller), and later came to be used to describe hawkers in general. Some historians have pointed out that a hierarchy existed within the costermonger class and that while costermongers sold from a handcart or animal-drawn cart, mere hawkers carried their wares in a basket.
Costermongers met a need for rapid food distribution from the wholesale markets (e.g., in London; Smithfield for meat, Spitalfields for fruit and vegetables or Billingsgate for fish) by providing retail sales at locations that were convenient for the labouring classes. Costermongers used a variety of devices to transport and display produce: a cart might be stationary at a market stall, a mobile (horse-drawn or wheelbarrow) apparatus or a hand-held basket might be used for light-weight goods such as herbs and flowers.
Costermongers experienced a turbulent history, yet survived numerous attempts to eradicate their class from the streets. Programmes designed to curtail their activities occurred during the reigns of Elizabeth I, Charles I and reached a peak during Victorian times. However, the social cohesion within the coster community, along with sympathetic public support, enabled them to resist efforts to eradicate them. As highly visible, colourful characters who provided service and convenience to the labouring classes, costermongers enjoyed a high level of public sympathy at times when they came under attack from authorities.
They became known for their melodic sales patter, poems and chants, which they used to attract attention. Both the sound and appearance of costermongers contributed to a distinctive street life that characterised London and other large European cities, including Paris, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries. Their loud sing-song cry or chants used to attract attention became part of the fabric of street life in large cities in Britain and Europe. Costermongers exhibited a distinct identity. Individuals signalled membership of the coster community through a dress code, especially the large neckerchief, known as a kingsman, tied round their necks. Their hostility towards the police was legendary. The distinctive identity and culture of costermongers led to considerable appeal as subject-matter for artists, dramatists, comedians, writers and musicians. Parodies of the costermonger and his way of life were frequent features in Victorian music halls. Costermongers were ubiquitous in mid-Victorian England, but their numbers began to decline in the second half of the 20th-century when they began to take up pitches in the regulated markets.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
A costermonger operates a handcart in the street selling goods,
especially fruits and vegetable.
Randall wrote:
fruit and vegetables
Alan J answered:
Fruits and Vegetables.
Jacqueline said:
Someone who sells fruits and vegetables.
Billy in Cypress U. $. A. replied:
Fruit and vegetables
Dave responded:
Fruits and vegetables. I was amused by the trivia answers yesterday claiming Andy William’s ex-wife shot and killed Jean-Claude Killy, which is impossible since Killy is alive and well in 2020 at age 77. She shot a different skier, okay? Spider Sabich was the American skier who was shot and killed by French born actress Claudine Longet in 1976. She had a good lawyer, and screw ups by the cops meant evidence that might have convicted her of murder were excluded from her trial. She served 30 days on a lesser charge and went back to France, where she still lives.
Photos: Costermonger cart | Claudine Longet and Spider Sabich prior to her murdering him
zorch said:
Costermongers sell fruit and vegetables.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
They sold fruits and vegetables. Unlike Eliza Doolittle, who sold flowers.
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
A costermonger sells fruits and vegetables. I’ve dealt with the Korean versions, buying apples as large as grapefruit and carrots the size of a child’s forearm.
Air quality is 165 at 7 a.m., so that dog walk will have to wait.
Kevin in Washington DC wrote:
Fruit and Vegetables.
John I from Hawai`i says,
Fruits and vegetables
Daniel in The City answered:
Fruits and vegetables
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fruits and vegetables
DJ Useo responded:
As I recall from looking the term up in high school with my gigantic dictionary, they sold fruit, cheese, & other stuff you probably wouldn't want to eat.
Rosemary in Columbus wrote:
Fruit, vegetables & maybe fish
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The Earth has changed dramatically over the last 4.543 billion years. Just think how you've changed since you were 12. It's another thing to see for yourself how your hometown has moved over the course of 750 million years as our planet's tectonic plates have shifted and landmasses have grown apart or else been submerged beneath the oceans.
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