Word: daggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beautiful & Damned. In Riverside, Calif., the public library displayed some rare bookmarks left by readers: a carpenter's file, a 6-in. rubber dagger, a cut-out of Marilyn Monroe, a lottery ticket on a 1936 Ford, a deflated balloon, a ticket to the fireman's ball, a note reading, "Roises are red/ Vilets are blue/ And I HATE YOU, Jean...
During a cloak-and-dagger TV play in Britain, a solemn voice announced to televiewers: "Should you be threatened, ring the secret number Whitehall 5422, give the code number 1785, then the code word 'curtain raiser,' and you will be put straight through to the Prime Minister!" Delighted to hear such hush-hush information, hundreds rushed to their telephones to pass the time of day with Sir Anthony Eden, succeeded only in clogging the Cabinet Office's tie line to 10 Downing Street...
Ignatius gave his fine clothes to a beggar, placed his sword and dagger on the altar of the Virgin at Montserrat. and retired for eleven months to the caves of Manresa to train for God's service as he had once trained for the duke's. He disciplined his body with torture and fasting, then turned to his mind, bending it to his will according to a self-imposed manual of mental arms. Out of this arduous retreat came the famed Spiritual Exercises, the course of disciplined mysticism that all Jesuits must undergo in a concentrated form...
...motives at the time ("When I saw he had this handful of money, there was penalty flags down all over the field for me"), but had finally accepted the donation. Explained Wishart: "I didn't think he could be a lobbyist. He kind of had a cloak-and-dagger attitude. It seemed to me that the poor devil had $2,500 he was trying to do anything to get somebody to take...
Have Tools; Will Travel. In Manhattan, the United Nations employees' newspaper quoted the appraisal of a personnel interviewer on a job applicant: "Definitely not to be considered; carried a dagger at waist; sloppy appearance; returned . . . carrying gun at waist...