Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the chamber hung an atmosphere of a Great Occasion, an air grave and chilling. Most of the speeches were set pieces, delivered from manuscript. Exchanges were sparse. The Administration's strategy -permitting the opposition orators to wear themselves out, unanswered-worked well. And from the start the isolationists knew the bill would pass without substantial amendment...
...broken arm and shoulder in a plaster cast, he fled to the south of France, where he still is. The Nazis thoroughly messed up the Normandy house, but Stuart Gilbert, who was translating the last of Les Thibault into English, managed to slip out with his manuscript. Published this week as Summer 1914, it brings the novel to a close (1,800-odd pages in all) and also finishes off the Thibaults as a family...
...spite of the ban which big bad Boston police have put on Esquire, a copy of that forbidden fruit mysteriously found its way into the Crimson office. More than that, it was coveted and scoured like a rare manuscript, and there was uncovered one article which all right-minded Harvard men should feel proud to read...
...photographic reconnaissance flights over the German lines. Once he was almost shot down by the Nazis, barely got his plane back safely. After France fell, Saint Exupery was decorated. Last week he landed in Manhattan from the steamer Siboney out of Lisbon. In his suitcase was a brand-new manuscript...
...sporting books, which date neatly from 1340 to 1940, points out that many a lustrous treatise on hawking, angling, hunting was written in the shadow of the Church. The first printed English sporting book, the Book of St. Albans, was written presumably by an abbess. "The greatest hunting manuscript in existence." the brilliantly illuminated 15th-Century Le Lime de la Chasse of Gaston Phebus, observes: "There is no man's life less displeasurable to God than the life of a perfect, skillful hunter. . . . Hunting causeth a man to eschew the seven deadly sins...