Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audiences all over the U.S., inveighed against the "shoddy and jaded intellectualism" of most modern poets, called instead for "instances of beauty that make mankind feel well and hopeful about life." Died. August S. Duesenberg, 75, builder (with his brother Fred) of the famed luxury automobiles and racers that bore his name; of a heart ailment; in Camby, Ind. First manufactured in 1911. the Duesenberg racer dominated the Indianapolis Speedway 500-mile race throughout the 1920s From 1929 until 1937, when the Depression killed the demand for high-priced cars ($13,000 and up), the rakish silhouette and high-powered...
...three of the other female hemophiliacs' families were British, all fitted the classic Mendelian inheritance pattern: a father-bleeder, a non-bleeding mother-carrier. One of the hemophiliac daughters successfully bore a child (TIME, July 16, 1951), but was later forced to undergo surgical removal of the uterus after she nearly bled to death...
...daily rounds. Except on the crack trains, cars are dirty, creaky, ramshackle and old, though also comfortable in a musty, antimacassar way. Cartoonist Rowland Emett has epitomized both Britain's love and loathing in Punch's "FarTwittering and Oysterperch Railway." But these rachitic sinews manfully bore the baggage of war. When the railroads were nationalized by the Socialists in 1948, the equipment was overaged, the labor force (at the unions' insistence) oversized. The government could never firmly decide whether to subsidize hundreds of half-idle porters and uneconomic Far Twitterings or to streamline the railways...
...affair takes place in one of those stuffy Victorian drawing rooms which playwrights thinks is characteristic of Long Island society, and Emanuel Gerald's sets are garish enough to bore even the most undiscriminating theatergoer by the time he sees them for two hours. But then they are characteristic of the play itself. Put them all together, or take them one by one: in any case, all you have is a series of two-line jokes on a subject which, by now, has been cowed into submission...
...river's edge, let their speculation run free. When Alice's poilu husband Gaston came back from the war a hero, the cheers that greeted him were mingled with many a knowing snicker, snickers directed both at him and at the baby boy his wife bore...