Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Similarly in Act II, Kilty slips in and out of the glorious interlude in The Apple Cart, in which Shaw intended King Magnus to be the author and Orinthia to be Mrs. Campbell--two portraits in disguise. This act too presents the long quarrel between the two over what should be done with their letters and over how much of them ought to be published. The act moves on to a most affecting conclusion, as we see the pathetic decline and hard days of Mrs. Campbell, who finally has to overcome her pride and write to Shaw for assistance...
Hood in a Hood. The tales were the kind that no small boy was likely to forget. For two glorious years in the 1870s young Ned Kelly, with a ?2,000 price on his head, led a hard-riding gang, "bailed up" banks, "duffed" horses, stood off whole companies of police troopers. The gang, which included Ned's brother Dan, bulletproofed themselves in massive vests beaten out of plowshares and canlike helmets. Staging holdups on a grand scale, the gang was generous with its loot, reserved its gunfire primarily for the police, and acquired the aura of latter...
...mirrored the University policy of knowing something about the whole department and a lot about some particular specialty of that department. The consequence was envisioned in mathematical terms, with knowledge building up from the most general understanding of all fields to the most meticulous understanding of some specialty, a glorious conic section...
...wide circulation TIME enjoys among thinking people, the result of your May 27 article, "The Heart at Work & Play," will be to bring an end to the form of play known as propagation ; abruptly end the increase of population upon which our economy is based, and wipe out the glorious future of our beloved country...
...evening, when the House of Lords finally emptied, even the Tory squirearchs who respect Salisbury had to concede that their hero had not won a glorious victory...