Word: fount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chosen battleground, began alternately shocking and dazzling the British with hugely energetic, part sentimental and part brutal monuments. Epstein's bull-bold, pink alabaster Adam made strong men blush, girls giggle, and dowagers howl for blood. "I saw my subject," Epstein rumblingly explained, mankind." "as His the contorted fount of female all nude, Rima, was unveiled by Stanley Baldwin in 1925. As he pulled the cord, the Prime Minister was heard to exclaim...
...Toynbee's attitude toward Judaism is ambivalent. He is highly eloquent about its spiritual and moral values, inevitably sees it as the fount of Christian civilization. But he also deplores its exclusive or "chosen people" attitude, regards its ritual adherence to the Law as an archaic dead end, accuses Zionism of attempting to achieve the Messianic promise of the Jews' return to Israel through force. Toynbee's sentiments-and scholarship-on Judaism are the subject of an angry attack by noted Jewish Author Maurice Samuel (The Professor and the Fossil, Knopf; $4), who believes that Toynbee...
...Skipper never served in Paris, the fount of his lore, but Dick did. Foresightedly, the Marine Corps sent the young officer there in 1952 to command the U.S. embassy guard, a plush detail enabling him to swallow new wines and sauces at great restaurants, while adding and subtracting their stars in the Guide Michelin. After a hitch in Korea (where raw spider crabs caked in crushed red pepper failed to thrill him), Captain McCutchen went to Ohio State University to teach naval science...
...Silver Fount. He has been fascinated by politics as long as he can remember. At the age of ten, he was attending political speeches. Once, he cut school and bribed a janitor with $2.50 to let him into an all-female meeting in Pasadena, where William Jennings Bryan was pouring out his oratorical silver. Before he cast his first vote. Goodie had heard Bryan a dozen times-as well as Woodrow Wilson, Hiram Johnson, William Howard Taft, Champ Clark and Theodore Roosevelt. Much of Goodie's political technique derives from his hooky-playing days with the great spellbinders. Says...
...candidates like we used to." Ten Carloads of Horses. Knight's parents both came of solid, pioneer, Mormon stock. His maternal grandfather, Judge John Milner, was a British lawyer who went to Provo, Utah for his health, became Brigham Young's secretary, a Mormon, and a fount of culture and learning...