Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Justice Rutledge's vote usually went with the so-called liberal bloc-Justices William O. Douglas, Hugo Black and the late Frank Murphy. Often Rutledge and Murphy, in their passion for individual liberties, found themselves paired in lonely, bitter dissent...
...Touching Image. In some ways, Strauss the man mirrored the strengths and weaknesses of his music. Even to the late admiring critic, Lawrence Gilman, he was a composer who could "mold a beautiful or touching or heroic tonal image, and then distort it by scrawling a bad joke somewhere on its surface." He was a man who composed a great symphonic poem about his own sometimes mean and usually money-grabbing life and called it Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life...
...dazzling bright room high above the late summer landscape of Manhattan's Central Park stood an exquisite blonde in a regal white dress (by Hattie Carnegie). She rustled her billowing petticoats and smiled a smile of quiet rapture. Above her decolletage, as bare as a lie and as bold as fashion, sparkled a small cascade of diamonds-or what looked like diamonds. Her slender, black-gloved hand gripped a black cigarette holder from which, now & again, she flicked a trace of ash with gracious disdain. A man's voice cooed...
...reader may feel that Erik's decision comes too late to win him a halo. On every occasion except the last, he invariably chucks science for dollars when the chips are down; in a sense, he has even deserted in the face of the enemy. The deeper objection is not that Erik is such an unstable compound, but that living with lightning makes such a dull life...
Married. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 35, third son of the late President, New Dealing freshman Representative from New York; and Suzanne Perrin, 28, blonde Manhattan socialite and exMarine; he for the second time; in Manhattan...