Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expect my bill to become law," Sullivan said. "Its purpose is to stimulate the trustees of educational institutions in the state to clean their own houses of Communist influence voluntarily by letting them know that we are ready to consider legislation to force them...
Howard Koeper may know a great deal about architecture, but his attack on the planning and interior decoration of the Lamont Library seems hardly justified in view of its functional success. The architects' lack of imagination is somewhat balanced, as in Littauer and Houghton, by efficient interior design...
...hullabaloo moves O'Casey himself, an ex-laborer who burns with a hot, proletarian fire. He is poor as a church mouse and still, at 35, such "innocent gaum" (dumbbell) that when he gets a check for one of his first plays he doesn't know how to go about cashing it. But he is sustained by wonderful dreams and illusions in which he sees Ireland peopled by "golden boys" who wander through lanes "canopied by the sly innocence of the woodbine's dangling stems," while adoring lasses stroke "the faded, maybe bloodstained, cloth" of heir uniforms...
...stately, plump Oliver St. John Gogarty surreptitiously read whodunits ; that refined Lady Gregory reveled in Peg o' My Heart; that the great Yeats himself (an admirer of Zane Grey) was prepared to acclaim O'Casey as "the Irish Dostoevsky"-though O'Casey says he happened to know that Yeats had barely looked into Dostoevsky. Appalled by such duplicity and filled with hatred of the new Eire's clerical atmosphere, O'Casey packed up and went to England, where his pure heart is still parked...
...barbed-wire obstacle with blood running from their face scratches (and he furtively pins a putative medal to his chest in the secrecy of his room); Colonel Pothecary, a plain man, stumbles warmheartedly through his announcement of the invasion: "Well, my lads. This is it. At last. You know, I'm damned if I know what to say to you . . . Eat when you can, and keep your bowels open...