Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While royalty lent a certain distinction to Holworthy, chickens were the best known of the hall's residents. Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles, a professor of Greek, occupied one room in Holworthy for 37 years; so did his poultry. The exact number of his birds is not known; several observers held that he kept some at the home of a certain lady on Garden Street...
Resignation & Command. From bee-stung lips to white-sheathed hips, 32-year-old Dorothy personified topic A. Her warm brown eyes singled out two or three lucky males for what appeared to be a special invitation, and her long, discreetly undulating body lent emphasis to the looks. Some of her songs told a story-about Good for Nothing Joe or Just One of Those Things; some rekindled the old glories of such sentiments as I Got Rhythm and Easy to Love. Her voice was commonplace, but her poised and charming delivery had the customers holding their breath. Everyone was ready...
When Albert Einstein got word of Hiroshima, he seemed unwilling to believe it. "Ach," he said sadly. "The world is not yet ready for it." As A-bomb led to H-bomb, and the atomic arms race began, he lent his prestige to almost any ban-the-bomb society that asked his sponsorship. Einstein's otherworldliness grew more pronounced. "The wish to withdraw into myself," he wrote, "increases with the years." But though his political forays were often Utopian, his scientific imagination still soared. He had unified the concepts of space and time, matter and energy, gravitation and inertia...
...Penman, Sarah Braverman, as Anna Livia, and Ed Chamberlain and Jac Rogers in a variety of roles. Ken Donahue was entirely enjoyable as everyman H.C.E., although as a result of the adaptation his major function throughout much of the play was to sleep atop the coffin. Joseph Mitchell lent delicacy at appropriate moments in several parts, especially during the dream dramas of H. C. Earwicker which occupied most of the second half of the production, and which were in many ways the most purely entertaining part of the evening...
Another day, when he moved a motion for a public monument to his old Liberal friend, World War I Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Churchill spoke with such feeling that the House had the impression that he was applying the valediction to himself. "Pity and compassion lent [him] their powerful wings. He knew the terror with which old age threatened the toiler . . . He stood, when at his zenith, without a rival...