Word: justness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elizabeth says she is quite certain that she and Bill will be married-someday. She refuses to be depressed by the fact that he is the vice president of a bus line in Florida, while her career is in Hollywood. They have not decided where to live, she says, but...
He watches, absorbed, the mating dance of the scorpions: "These hideous devotees of gaiety provide a dance that is not wholly devoid of charm . . . They seek one another and fly precipitately the moment they touch, as though they had mutually burnt their fingers ... At times there is a violent tumult...
Among the men who make them convincing is tall, bald Perry Wilson, a 60-year-old ex-architect who joined the museum staff when his business went to pot in 1934. Last week, in a secluded hall just back of the battling moose, Wilson was drawing a pond and trees...
The team of specialists on the job could be reasonably sure that when it was done not a brush stroke, a clumsily veined leaf, a speck of dust or a beaver hair out of place would mar the illusion of paralyzed reality. Fooling the eye, they agreed, is just a...
Niemöller expects Australians to be less complicated than Europeans. Said he last week: "It will be necessary, I think, to speak to them in simple, sincere, readily understandable terms. All I will try to do is to put before them a picture, in solid, simple lines like a...