Word: bosoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This fall Harvard will take to its bosom 100 extra students, but approximately 88 per cent of them are foredoomed never to get a diploma, none will register in Mem Hall, and they will be instructed by a faculty of undergraduates...
...family man. / / When the chorus of Cincinnati Summer Opera Association, claiming $400 for overtime rehearsals, walked out just before the curtain rose, the management hastily invoked arbitration and put the disputed money in escrow. The stakeholder: Gladys Swarthout, who went on as Carmen with the money in her bosom...
...sixteenth-century classicism. With a bare economy of notes, it builds up by means of polyphonic architecture to a climax of tremendous beauty, and with the final text "in pace," the souls of the righteous seem to float off into space and come eternally to rest in Abraham's bosom. The Lamentations of Jeremiah, an entirely different sort of thing, takes as its subject the Biblical account of the fall of Jerusalem, and achieves its effect of sustained grief by a certain pitched, calculated monotony. Now and then a sharper twist of phrase suggests the weeping and gnashing of teeth...
...pact. The Republic had its finger in its mouth. Then Mrs. Austen Chamberlain, her husband's ablest helper, rose to the emergency. She chartered a small yacht, stocked it with international delicacies, and during one long afternoon the plenipotentiaries of Britain, Germany and France relaxed on the placid bosom of Lake Maggiore...
Increasingly newsmen have lately been stirred by uneasy memories of World War I's Committee on Public Information, and its mercurial creator of genius, George Creel, the crusading Denver newspaperman. Let there be no propaganda, said Creel to his bosom friend, Woodrow Wilson; let there be "unparalleled openness," "expression, not repression"-in short, "voluntary censorship." With that idealistic base Creel proceeded to build such a propaganda wonder, with vast, adroitly concealed powers over the press...