Word: bloodless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cult of chamber music. Now the Lener is one of the world's first string organizations. In Manhattan last fortnight its tender, lush playing of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven won noisy approval from the audience, superlatives from critics; made recent performances by the London String Quartet seem over-fastidious, bloodless by comparison. The Roth Quartet, however, also from Budapest, remains for most critics unrivaled for its flawless finesse...
Both revolutions were at first entirely bloodless. The soldiers of the garrisons at Vera Cruz and Nogales simply obeyed their Generals-previously trusted servants of the state-when ordered to declare against the government of Mexican President Emilio Fortes Gil, ruthless suppressor of Catholics...
Harvard, freezing in the chill distances of the unfleshed thought, was perishing in her own too-much of bloodless intellectualism. Then...
...Plus an annuity of $250,000 to begin ten years after purchase. †The revolt of the Panamen was not, as is often charged, instigated by the Roosevelt Administration. Philippe Bunau-Varilla, French engineer, engineered the revolution, which was bloodless. President Roosevelt quickly sent warships to support the new gov- ernment. Explaining this to his Cabinet, President Roosevelt said: "I simply lifted my foot...
...means Death. His wife, Miriam, has turned into a spiritual succubus, slowly extracting from her lovers their health and sanity and a psychic poison which she hopes to distill to a potency that will humble Richard Pride. Their daughter, Janet, flowers like a enamel blossom. Wilfred Hough is the bloodless wraith of what was a bright young secretary a few years ago, before Miriam used him. A young voodoo Negress moves through the house, darkness serving darkness in silence, and with a small drum. Finally, there is the narrator, Oscar Fitzalan, a youth engaged to furnish musical accom- paniments...