Word: fathomable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exactly which door is supposed to be the strange one is hard to fathom; probably it is the one in the RKO Boston, which assuredly has occult powers if it lures anyone in from the peace and quiet of Washington Street...
...later, though he still thought the claims of the disciples absurd, Barabbas found himself wandering through the alleyways of the lower city, where the new faith flourished among the poor. Barabbas liked to hear them talk about their queer doctrines-love one another, they said. He could not fathom it, but he wanted to hear...
...lined up like pins in an alley. Eight torpedoes hit six of them, including two ammunition ships, and turned the harbor into "a wholesale fireworks display with the aurora borealis and a couple of sunsets to boot." An hour later, Skipper Fluckey noted in his log: "Crossed the 20 fathom curve with a sigh ... However, life begins at 40 fathoms...
...tears, Mother Nightingale had confided to a friend: "We are ducks who have hatched a wild swan." It was no swan, as Lytton Strachey noted in his famous biographical essay, "it was an eagle." But Strachey-could never fathom Miss Nightingale either, because he himself, a brilliant and heretical writer, put no stock in God or goodness. The best Strachey could do was to guess that Florence Nightingale was in the clutch of a demonic spirit...
...reasons hard to fathom, Compiler Norman Denny has not attempted to thumb out The Yellow Book's plums for this anthology, preferring to collect what he calls "a fair summary" of the original 13 volumes. If this is indeed a fair summary, it is pretty hard to see why Victorians found The Yellow Book so shocking that at least one plea was made for its suppression by Parliament. The boys were more to be pitied than censored...