Word: boringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pere Marquette Hotel, Paul Douglas arose at 8 a.m. after eight hours' sleep. He did some paper work, looked over a speech, then drove out to deliver it to the Illinois State Federation of Labor at the Peoria armory. As he has for nearly two years, he bore down heavily on the Illinois economic situation...
...Will Listen? It is easy enough to say, with Elmer Davis, that eminent piece of journalistic litmus paper, that ex-Communists are bores. But Koestler is no bore. He transformed history into literature of such reality that it, in turn, became history. His masterpiece, Darkness at Noon, was based on the Moscow trials and told how 01d Bolshevik "Rubashov" confessed falsely to a plot against the party, because confession was "the last service" he could render the party. While Koestler was writing that novel, Walter Krivitsky, ex-head of Soviet Military Intelligence for Western Europe, was writing a factual account...
Corroding Confidence. For the first time, something that bore an official imprint was substituted for the deluge of black headlines and wild rumors that had sprung up because of the 18-month-old death of Wilma Montesi, the obscure daughter of a Roman carpenter. The charge laid against Piccioni was that, believing Wilma Montesi dead (presumably as a result of a drug orgy), he had left her body on a beach 13 miles outside Rome. There she had drowned in the tide. Montagna, a man of large but questioned means, and Polito were charged with aiding and abetting the manslaughter...
...show of Wiinblad's work last week transformed the third floor of Georg Jensen Inc., the Manhattan emporium of Scandinavian good taste, into a strange place, half fairyland and half Punch cartoon. Puckish faces were everywhere, and they bore a remarkable resemblance to the artist-bright-eyed, point-nosed, with an expression of gaiety rampant. The show included chummy centaurs bearing candles, chubby wood nymphs lurking in the shrubbery, birds that never were, sinuous but homey maidens, and friendly eggheads sprouting flowers. One Stolen Nymph, her navel flower-decked, sat sidesaddle aboard a centaur, who was chiefly interested...
...serfs court titles: "Maid of Honor," "Court Chamberlain." When her family physician came to treat her little adopted daughter, he was told: "Remember! If you don't cure her . . . Siberia!" Mother Turgenev discouraged marriage among her serfs because she liked their undivided attention for herself, so her women bore illegitimate children instead and either drowned them at birth in the estate lake or brought them up secretly for years in locked rooms. "A maid who did not offer her a cup of tea in the proper way was sent off to some remote village and perhaps separated from...