Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dawn rose over the city many still sat half-naked in the doorways along La Salle Street. Others, begrimed and barefooted, stood weeping in the lobby of the City Hall. Forty-three blanketed bodies lay there on the marble floor, their feet carefully tagged, beneath a sign which read: "Pay Water Taxes Here." (At week's end the death list...
...setting of most of Pursuit is Alconleigh-a forbidding country mansion littered with terriers, halberds, "penholders made of tigers' teeth," a dusty collection of rare minerals, pet dormice, horses, French governesses, peasants and pheasants. Winter & summer, day began at 5 a.m., when Lord Alconleigh greeted the dawn with one his favorite records (Drake Is Sailing West, Lads, the "mad" scene from Lucia, or Lo, Here the Gentle Lark, sung by Galli-Curci), and strode on to the lawn cracking a Canadian stock whip. After breakfast, he gave his daughters a brief head start, then hunted them crosscountry with four...
...familiar, yet had become unfamiliar. We hear a lilting, cheerful voice repeating a color over and over again. We remember all too vividly the soul-searchings and fears of failure as we worked a new machine for you, Inch, with new parts. Then there was a walk in the dawn, surrounded by fuzzy outlines colored with a pink glow which brightened until it was easy to read your reborn writing by the light in the sky. And we catch one picture that we will never forget, that will never be merged in a great mass of faces, impersonalized, romanticized, forgotten...
...dawn of the new era Crimson editorial policy paused for an impatient week of orientation before striking out at specific issues. In three editorials dealing with College, national, and international issues, the Crimson asked Quo Vadimus?, questioned the University on the progress of its General Education plan, the adequacy of its adjustments to veteran influx, and its proclaimed intention to admit more "healthy, normal extrovert" students; it queried the United States on its frantic return to normaley, the United Nations on its Big Four domination and atom bomb fumbling...
...richness like the air, and almost as naturally began painting pictures of his own. Now, in a handsome book to be published next week (Giovanni Bellini, Phaidon, Oxford; $6.50), a large part of Bellini's work has been spread out for those who want to see the dawn of the Renaissance in Venice...