Word: decays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Four canvases representing the stages of Dorian's decay were painted by the famed twins, Ivan and Malvin Albright...
Fortnight ago Cantachiaro dug its spurs into a Benito Mussolini speech, delivered in Milan. Headlines and acetous comments derided the ex-Duce as "delirious ... a Nero who fiddled all Italy into ashes," and his followers as "scum in an advanced state of decay." Explained Editor Monicelli: "We offer the complete text [of Mussolini's speech] to our readers with the wish that . . . the last remains of this tragic buffoonery . . . should be swept away...
Victorian clothes and manner exuded the odor of decay, and one felt that here in this cramped room filled with musty books and pamphlets we were witnessing the last stand of the embattled French literary and journalistic giants of the old tradition...
...Barker's specifications: "absolutely free from dental caries [decay] ... sized, shaped and set true and properly in the dental arch . . . proper shade, colorings and translucence to blend perfectly with the surrounding gum tissue, the eyes, hair and complexion . . . perfect cusps, grooves, pits, fissures and marginal ridges...
...Lieut. MacAuley and Corporal Stewart were out to kill more than an afternoon. As Ern Malley they wrote: "For some years we have observed with distaste the gradual decay of meaning and craftsmanship in poetry. Harris and other Angry Penguins writers represent the Australian outcrop of a literary fashion prominent in England and America, a distinctive feature of which seemed to us to render its devotees insensible of its absurdity...