Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longing expressed for a return to simplicity and economy in our automobiles is out of pace with the times, I shall then presume on an old man's (44) right to dream and remember the day when a Ford was a Ford, and not a composite of a Cadillac, a Buick, and a snorkel submarine rolled into...
...last week. But his real complaint was as old as the truce talks themselves. Rhee's foreign minister, Pyun Yung Tai, summed it up: "We cannot accept any premise that leaves Korea divided and makes North Korea a Chinese colony." For decades Patriot Rhee and his followers have dreamed of, planned, suffered torture and exile for an independent and unified Korea. Now, a few miles away from his wistaria-covered terrace, U.N. negotiators were bargaining that dream away in the name of peace. What made Rhee doubly angry was that of all of the U.S.'s allies, only...
Kisses for Cash. When Marzotto started his hotels, he already had some experience as a professional host in two unique restaurants near Verona. One is in the castle of the Montagues, the other is the castle of the Capulets, where Romeo called Juliet's love a dream "too flattering-sweet to be substantial." Marzotto turned such dreams into substance by renovating the ancient castles and charging couples 100 lire to kiss on Juliet's balcony...
...previous major attempts: Warner's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) with Mickey Rooney, Joe E. Brown and James Cagney; MGM's Romeo and Juliet (1936) with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer. Financially and artistically disastrous, these productions convinced Hollywood that Shakespeare was "boxoffice poison...
Living in isolation on the edge of the moors, never seeing other children, seldom winning a glance of warmth from their father, the little Brontës soon created their own dream world. At 13, Charlotte had written 22 little books of stories about the imaginary land of Angria, where heroes were amoral, sardonic and sadistic; Emily worked at the Gondal chronicles on the wars of Royalists and Republicans in a mysterious kingdom of the North. Later, when Charlotte was a teacher, she found nothing more thrilling than a letter from brother Branwell reporting "news" of one of their...