Word: lingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will all pass suddenly. At Harvard, the Square will rumble again, and the West Point cadets will march gayly off. Two minutes have ticked away, but their spirit will linger--to be cherished, to be fought for, to be preserved. At Boston Common, Legionnaires will march for Peace. At the Friends' Center, pacifists will debate for Peace. The Massachusetts Youth Committee will distribute exhortative pamphlets. The Anti-War Committee will preach their platform for Peace. The Student Union will counter with theirs. Every voice in the country will be raised towards...
...romantic than decayed teeth. In the broadest terms, his picture of Jefferson's social history is this: Jefferson's men & women of the Civil War generation were strongwilled, ambitious, quixotic, ruined not so much by the War as by their own feudal code; their sons tended to linger long over the achievements of their ancestors as wealth and position slipped away; members of the third generation turned savagely on their parents when they found that the traditions they inherited did not square with the bitter actualities of life. So his books are full of melodrama: the last descendants...
Hollywood guides linger loquaciously in front of the tomb of Rudolf Valentino in the Hollywood Cemetery. Every year, they say, on the anniversary of Valentino's death, a mysterious, thickly-veiled Woman in Black is driven to the gates by a chauffeur, alights, places a bunch of red roses on Valentino's tomb, dabs daintily at her eyes with a black-bordered handkerchief, departs. Last year there came also an old man with a beard, a grey skull cap and a staff of yellow ribbons, who knelt and prayed, then played The Sheik of Araby on a mouth...
...same time the reason for Soviet persistence became known. Russia is clearing all consulates out of Leningrad (the U. S. has no consulate there) so that foreigners will find it unsafe to linger in that Baltic port where she plans to launch a naval building program in secrecy. The U. S. S. R. already has the world's largest army-1,300,000 men-and last week new-Navy Commissar Peter A. Smirnov declared at Moscow: "We are going to build not only the best but also the biggest navy in the world...
...narrative. Forever Ulysses clips along at a fast pace. Readers who like a breathing spell at intervals may linger over such reflections as these: ". . . The spirit of Greece . . . from the time of Hermes . . has changed but little. . . . When a Greek has learning he understands nothing; and when he knows nothing he understands everything. ... To exploit the natives of every country is for the Greek an atavistic dream. . . . For the Greeks alone have known how to worst the Jews." The resulting Greek portrait may seem to Occidentals as confusing and contradictory as Balkan activities generally, may also constitute a tribute...