Word: lingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concert platform, bald-headed Violinist Mischa Elman wrote a letter last month from St. Jean-de-Luz, France, to his father in Manhattan. Made public last week, the letter told how Violinist Elman had given a party for Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin ''which will long linger in the memory of those who were there." Cinemactor Chaplin told Edward Prince of Wales "what a wonderful time he had at my house . . . The Prince, who came here for a vacation, and being evidently tired to be constantly with the same group of people, told Chaplin that he would like...
Much of Business Adrift is quotable, for Dean Donham writes forcefully, shuns frills. Sections over which the reader's eye and mind are likely to linger include...
...shades of a late great writer and of others not so great slide and fade across the pages of Robert Nathan, sometimes linger there. Anatole France's is the biggest shadow; lesser ones, not so clear in outline, resemble O. Henry or Richard Harding Davis. The Orchid is like a miniature in enamel: ingenious, smooth, fitted cunningly into small spaces. It is not. a novel but a satirical fable, a grownup fairy story...
...inadequate water supply, by writing a signed and widely-circulated voters' bulletin. Excerpts: "You speculate on the practical uses of Lake Springfield. . . . The next afternoon you are inclined to loaf, take the trip over the Lake Springfield trail. . . . Climb into the family bus and hit the trail. . . . Linger through the evening. Watch the sun go down in purple splendor, and study the famous afterglow of Central Illinois, the benediction...
...Walcott, for a third of a century one of the governing board of Harvard College, as integral a part of old Cambridge as the Common, opposite his home; Henry Rogers, who only two years ago wrote his "Memories of Ninety Years": Charles Alexander Nelson, whose presence still seems to linger in the Columbia Library; John Torrey Morse, who began writing American biography more than half a century ago and is still at it-his latest book, published last year, was a life of Thomas Sergeant Perry; on to the eleventh on the list, Mr. Justice Holmes, of the class...