Word: disturber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some exhibit highlights from the work of a few of the 165-odd Indian tribes who had a fairly complex civilization when Cortes came to disturb them...
...minute whey-faced, invalid Evelyn Heath (Anne Baxter) enters the Proctor home and makes a tender request that nobody move and disturb this perfect picture for just a moment, any perceptive member of the family would have clapped on his hat and sprinted for help. But the Proctors, being merely nice, well-meaning people, are singularly unperceptive...
...favorite theme is the Briton's refusal to let even catastrophe disturb his stout routine. In a club a testy gentleman behind whose favorite armchair a bomb has just torn a gaping hole in floor and ceiling reproves an anxious flunkey: "I'm perfectly aware of that." A lady, calmly knitting in the shelter of the two walls of her house that still stand, replies to a curious passerby: "Yes, since 1940. I wasn't going to let Hitler crow that...
...morning when he was through. On the floor lay a body, slashed and dismembered beyond recognition. He bathed and dressed and walked into the hall. A chambermaid smiled as he said, politely, "Please don't disturb my wife." He walked into the street...
...Disturb. Otto Wilson smashed his fist against her as soon as she had taken off her clothes. Her neck was thin. After she had stopped breathing he remembered his knife-left behind at the Barclay. He walked to the washbowl, rubbed his face with soap & water, and shaved. Then he lifted out the razor blade, knelt beside the body on the floor, and pressed down with the thin bit of steel. He cut his hand. But he lingered awhile. On the way out he stopped before the desk clerk and said: "My wife is sleeping. Please don't disturb...