Word: blue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emily Dickinson frequently combines the abstract and the concrete in such images as "amethyst remembrance," and "the blue and gold mistake of Indian Summer," MacLeish noted. By skillful use of tone she is then able to make these sensual counterweights to her ideas seem true...
...intimately involved in shaping the future, Anderson has an old-fashioned aura about him. He wears sober blue suits and a vest. He shuns Washington social life, preferring to spend his time with his family (Wife Ollie Mae, two sons, 23 and 19). He still treasures and quotes the faded poets, including Poe, Kipling and Edwin (The Man with the Hoe) Markham, whom he loved in his boyhood. In an age when public men tend to hedge their affirmations, he speaks out forthrightly for such notions as "the integrity of the dollar" and the value of individuality. A devout, Bible...
With words to match the splendor of his navy blue uniform trimmed with gold braid and epaulets, the Governor of Kenya rose in Nairobi's Legislative Council to deliver his maiden address. "There is a new government in England with a new Colonial Secretary, and a new Governor of Kenya," said Sir Patrick Renison. "In a glowing spirit of challenge and adventure, let us put the darkness behind us and look bravely to the future...
...deceased chaplains and members of the U.S. armed forces. The 329-ft. bell tower cost $1,000,000, raised by the Knights of Columbus. Two statues of the Virgin by Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic dominate the north and south walls of the church. Above them rises a mosaic dome of blue, red and gold, topped by a gold-leafed steel cross...
Many a tender nursery rhyme barely holds its own. At seven or eight, children tire of versions tied in pink and blue ribbons. They prefer...