Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pale pink. St. Louisans, having had a lot of fun while it lasted, sat back to admire the vastly superior Cardinals, riding to their third consecutive National League pennant on a 161-game lead. But there was at least one St. Louis citizen who still believed in the Browns. Blake Harper, concessionaire at Sportsman's Park, was busy preparing a Browns' World Series program, had ordered 10,000 cases of beer and soda pop, 10,000 pounds of popcorn, 180,000 hot dogs. The extent of his confidence was reflected in the preparation of the wieners...
...Normal" people discredited Rembrandt, misunderstood El Greco, reviled Blake, ignored Cézanne, drove Van Gogh to suicide and Gauguin into exile...
Love of country, admirable as a natural passion, was distorted into a fierce nationalism by William Shakespeare ("this happy breed of men, this little world") and a host of Romantics- including William Blake, who selfishly hoped to "build Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land...
...Among Gide's 70-odd volumes of prose (mostly essays and novels), poems, plays and prefaces, are translations of poems by William Blake, Rabindranath Tagore, Walt Whitman, Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra...
Daniel R. Shields, of Kirkland House and Sugar Grove, Illinois, was chosen Class Secretary, and Blaise F. Alfano, of Kirkland House and Roslindale, received the post of Treasurer. Six additional then were chosen as members of the permanent Class Committee: Donald J. Blake, of Kirkland House and Rochester, New York; Thomas A. Caldwell, Jr., of Kirkland House and Chattanooga, Tennessee; Lawrence Creshkoff, of Eliot House and Philadelphia; Robert M. Hart, of Eliot House and Tulsa, Oklahoma; Walter H. Trumbull, Jr., of Kirkland House and Weston; and Richard L. Warren, of Eliot House and Rockton, Illinois...