Word: lurked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full tide of political and psychological revolution the unqualified suffrage was bestowed by generous radical; in the recent elections to the Cortes a Conservative victory has been achieved through the solid vote of large blocs of the female population. Behind the defeat of the Socialist party appears to lurk the shadow of the Church, disestablished by the Revolution and the enemy of all Spanish Reds; the tactic which they have needed for so long seems to have been placed graciously in their cassocked laps: the opportunity to utilize their hold on the provincial women for political purposes. What...
Most anglers consider the trout a clever creature, cool, resourceful and important. Anglers are mistaken. Trout are nervous rather than intelligent. Only terror, causing them to dart and lurk, makes them fun to catch. Puzzled, dejected, perpetually alarmed by trifles, U. S. trout were unaware last week of a new book which materially increases the dangers of their station...
Brass Ankle. It takes a Southerner to convey adequately the potential horror and tragedy that lurk in the sociological backwaters of the Deep South. The cruelty of middle-class white "crackers" has been deftly transferred to book form by William Faulkner (Sanctuary), a reconstructed Southerner (TIME, Feb. 16). Further aspects of it are now to be seen in this grim play by DuBose Heyward of Charleston, S. C., author of the book whence came all-Negro Porgy three years...
...still a distinct improvement. But it is high time to call a halt to this contemplation of Cambridge's rapid architectural metamorphosis and settle down to the duties of the coming year. With lectures to begin Wednesday there is no time to lose, for just around the corner lurk the wheels of knowledge just on the point of starting their nine month's grind...
...PROGRESS of youth through the realm of literature is dated by the discovery of the figure which lurk behind each turning in the path. Just as Shelley and the author or "The Way of All Flesh" point the way at certain crossroads, so the smooth-shaven and deeply lined face of Charles Baudelaire at its appointed time looms up like certainty for those who follow the orthodox road to literary sophistication. As the author of this most recent life of Baudelaire notes in his introduction, the "poet maudit" generally appears on the horizon of his American readers during their college...