The #22 and #24 (toteless) smoothing planes are nice, as are the #35 and #36 (toted) smoothing planes. These are readily obtainable.

Driven by legalized gambling, many of the [Las Vegas] strip's motels had morphed into giant hotels with gambling floors and night clubs and surrounded by large parking lots. Closeness to Hollywood (with its fantasy world of entertainment bizazz) influenced strip architecture.

[T]he report had already been spread about the country that Shiana was out of his mind; […] that there was a batch of people in every one of the seven townlands cutting splinters of wood to make torches for the night to go in search of him, and that no doubt he would be found stuck head downwards in some hole and drowned, or in some rock-cave, perished with cold and hunger.

When Cyril goes searching for his deadbeat father, he’s also looking for his bike, and he’s devastated to discover his dad sold it off to make ends meet.