Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...runs the Greek legend. Lately Italian archeologists, probing the sand dunes near the ancient port of Ostia at the mouth of the yellow Tiber, turned up a marble statue of Perseus, a curly-haired youth clutching his dreadful trophy. The statue bore some resemblance to the Hermes of Praxiteles, was apparently carved in the Graeco-Roman period...
...wadding were used to hoist it from the basement of the Ettl Studios to the street level. Sculptor Lachaise was too nervous to watch but telephoned every ten minutes for a report on progress. Standing on the sidewalk before the museum he screamed with dismay when three fire engines bore down on truck and Mountain just as they were backing in to the curb. There was no collision...
Romeo and Juliet. A great show, even for those who secretly think the Bard is a bore...
...anyone familiar with Soviet trials the document offered as Assassin Nicolaev's confession bore earmarks of labored composition by the Gay-pay-oo. It confessed that an unspecified foreign consul† gave Nicolaev 5,000 rubles and offered to put him in touch with Great Red Exile Leon Trotsky. "From Capitalistic darkness," editorialized the official newsorgan Pravda, "comes the stench which Kirov's murderers breathed!" According to Pravda, the leaders of the Trotsky faction accused in the case are "prostituted scoundrels, arrant blackguards, cowards, traitors, bankrupt politicians, deserters, outcasts of the human race and thrice accursed...
...close his dictionary in puzzlement, forget he ever wanted to know about candles. A quarter century ago Columbia's famed educational psychologist decided that something must be done for the millions & millions of youngsters between 10 and 15 who have to struggle with such monstrous definitions. That decision bore fruit last week when the Thorndike-Century Junior Dictionary came off Chicago presses...