Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...child, he had loved to don a surplice and "preach sermons to his admiring Aunt Betty." As a youth, he had avoided horse play ("I do not seem to want a black eye"). As a professor, he coined a famed phrase when he solemnly urged his students "to burn always with [a] hard, gemlike flame." "Oh, for Crime!" But most of Pater's fellow esthetes took their rebellion more strenuously. In a series of sensuous, pagan hymns, Eton-educated Poet Algernon Swinburne (he had been expelled from the Royal Arts Club for laying the members' silk hats...
...Russians' memories of the League of Nations, and of their unhappy exit from the League, still burn and rankle. Russia perforce took a back seat in the League; she proposes to take and hold a front seat in the new world organization. Front-seat manners will have to be acquired later...
...that Russia was not deserting the conference. Said Britain's Lord Halifax, strolling from the hall: "I don't think this is the end of the world." The Russians' memories of the League of Nations, and of their unhappy exit from the League, still burn and rankle. Russia perforce took a back seat in the League; she proposes to take and hold a front seat in the new world organization. Front-seat manners will have to be acquired later...
Richard Arnell is the son of a British contractor who opposed his son's music career. In 1939, after studies at the Royal College of Music in London, the young composer decided to burn his early manuscripts and try his luck elsewhere. He picked the U.S. for his future. In New York he taught composition, served as a music consultant to BBC, and became a protege of Sir Thomas Beecham. In the past three years Sir Thomas has performed his young compatriot's Sinfonia and his First Symphony...
...said Mark Twain, did "more real and lasting harm" with his "sham grandeurs" than "any other individual that ever wrote." Today, few Americans suspect how many thousands of native place names are directly or indirectly Sir Walter's. "Poetic" names built around glen, dale, vale, hurst, mere and burn broke out like a rash in the late 1800s; soon they enclosed many cities "like a ring of outer fortifications," protecting them from such vulgarisms as creek, gap, bottom and bluff. "Even if a city-dweller could escape moving to the suburbs [of Larchmont, Glen Cove and Scarsdale...