Word: latches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio listeners heard Churchill's reply: "What touches me most in this ceremony is that sense of kinship and of unity which I feel exists between us this afternoon. . . . Here at least in my mother's birth city of Rochester, I hold a latch-key to American hearts. . . . What is the explanation of the enslavement of Europe by the German Nazi regime? . . . There was no unity. . . . The nations were pulled down one by one. ... Is this tragedy to repeat itself once more? Ah, no. . . . United we stand, divided we fall...
Because in speaking for themselves they spoke for most Americans, their countrymen revered the New England giants, even when age had left them like a range of extinct peaks on a receding horizon. Critic William Winter walked in the moonlight to touch the latch of Longfellow's gate. Others traveled to Concord to gaze at Emerson's woodpile. Young William Dean Howells walked up Lowell's path with palpitating heart...
...afflicted with intermittent lunacy. But Mary Lamb seems to have felt quite at home in it. At times when she did not, or when Charles, who was something of a tosspot (Mary used to leave his bedroom door ajar so that Charles would not have to fumble at the latch), was reforming, the Lambs would go for a browse in the country. On one vacation they estimated that they walked 350 miles...