Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ideal climate, avers Nature, would have a winter mean temperature not below freezing and a summer so cool that a lightly clothed man could walk four miles an hour in sunlight without sweating. The best climate in the world is that of New Zealand. Pretty good is the area including the British Isles, France, northern Spain, Switzerland. Germany, The Netherlands. Denmark, southwest Scandinavia. The U.S. is not even in the running...
Those words represent the craving of Hundreds of Millions of People in every quarter of the globe. They constitute the ideal towards which the Democracies have been groping for many generations. That is the goal towards which the men and women and the governments of the United Nations are striving today...
...regional novelist, but also local magistrate, school councilor, alder man, freeman of three Cornish towns onetime mayor of Fowey (rhymes with joy), his birthplace and home. When Q said of Samuel Johnson: "He never saw literature but as a part of life," he was stating his own, classically inspired ideal of the author as citizen...
Compared to the Greek ideal (e.g.., Aphrodite of Cyrene), Norma is relatively slim-hipped and less voluptuously curved; the trend in development of her figure seems to be toward the "high fashion" or dress-model type-a tall (5 ft. 7 in.) triangular shape with broad shoulders, very slender hips and long legs...
...ideal of the Fabbulous Monster was attained early. Large, floppy, green hats became Woollcott's favorite headgear. On Fifth Avenue he wore a red waistcoat embroidered with headless bodies and bodiless heads. He built himself a magnificent bathroom, decorated it with a tile which showed Woollcott on the toilet seat. His language matched his man ners. He would say to a guest: "You faun's rear end, I hoped we'd seen the last of you," or "Here's our withered harpy back again." "Thank you, you mildewed sheeny," was his way of acknowledging help from...