Word: ardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more exuberant fashions of the Italian Renaissance swept their homely, literal art from popularity. But before it had done so, Van Eyck and his immediate successors, Roger van der Weyden, Dirk Bouts, Hans Memling and Ger ard David, had made their mark on history as the first realists in European...
...stoker passing cordite up to one of the Britisher's for'ard guns was puzzled by sudden silence above him. He went aloft to see what was the trouble. He found ". . . most of the men dead. . . . About 20 men were being attended to by the doctor. A shell came over and I guess it finished them." The third salvo had carried away another forward gun. Another powder monkey (in peacetime a London cabby) later recalled how after half an hour, "my gun was hit directly. . . . There was a terrible sound and the gun and its whole crew were...
...failed to cheer many Republican politicians. In their gloomy minds, they recalled the black year of 1936 when Alf Landon had had an early lead in polls. In 1928, the whole U. S. turned out to see Al Smith roll by, with cigar, brown derby, wisecracks, East S:dese ard all. As one sad Old Guardsman pontificated to another: dead whales on flat cars also attract crowds...