Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inner Man. In Manhattan, Jesse Blades, in happy retirement after 20 years as a cop, saw a police signal box, obeyed his impulse, got a court reprimand for shouting "vile and abusive language" into...
...that she was saved from drowning as a child by an unknown hand; that a locked church door opened to her touch. It is said that a sister who shared her room once woke to find it flooded with a strange light. But the most revealing evidences of her inner life were the intimate notes she kept in her private journal...
...would be carried out under the command of Vice Admiral W.H.P. Blandy, Commander of the joint Army-Navy task force. Against the peaceful backdrop of palm frond and pandanus, on this most "backward" of islands, the most progressive of centuries would write in one blinding stroke of disintegration the inner meaning of technological civilization: all matter is speed and flame. Well might the stone giants embedded in the solid earth of Easter Island feel, in the far ripple of fission brought them by the waves, a tremor of finality...
Fashionable Parisians, convinced that inner lavements purified the complexion and produced good health, took as many as three or four enemas a day. The craze was often burlesqued on the stage, notably by Moliere, and it was a lively topic of elegant discourse in the salons...
...Washington's National Gallery. Walker and his helpers among top-drawer U.S. museum directors had no trouble picking 19th Century masters like Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, but debated back & forth over such contemporary choices as Morris Grave's scratchy watercolor called Little Known Bird of the Inner Eye and Man Ray's crisp Admiration of the Ochestrelle for the Cinematograph...