Word: faints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some readers may feel that in his pornodramatic foreshadowing of the Nazi brew, Author Remains is being wise after the event. But most readers are likely to be impressed by the deftness with which he goes from door to door in the Paris streets of 1928, uncovering the first faint stirrings of that perverted violence which, a decade later, joined its Nazi counterpart to trample France into...
...Samothrace, the Argonauts were initiated into the sacred mysteries. The Goddess of All Being mated with the Serpent Priapus, and was delivered of a bull. Then the sacred nymphs leapt on the Argonauts and scratched and bit them until even Hercules passed out. Thereafter, the Argonauts glowed with "a faint nimbus of light...
...loudspeaker carried the Generalissimo's voice from the broadcasting studio to gathering crowds outside. Into the studio, as he spoke, crept faint sounds of firecrackers popping, people shouting...
Last week Meditation's tobacco tones had disappeared, and so had Mantegna's signature. In its place was a faint scrawl. The Museum explained...
...gags that fans like. Two samples: he doffs his cap and, with a great show of respect, uses it to dust off third base to welcome any Cub who hits a home run; if a pitcher hits a homer, he topples over backwards in a mock dead faint. The more Grimm mugs, the better his Cubs seem to play...