Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saints, set their animal pictures under glass for the public. Daniels and St. Jeromes fondled lions in their dens, St. Georges slew dragons by the lanceful; behemoths, leviathans out of Job and seven-headed monsters out of Revelations reared and pranced on many an ancient parchment. An old Flemish manuscript showed St. Margaret being disgorged Caesarean-wise by a repentant dragon who had swallowed her. A fox ogled out-of-reach grapes in the earliest extant copy of Aesop (circa 1000 A.D.). A 15th-Century German volume showed a woodcut of bewildered apes trying to light a fire with...
...dead language," he got out of Europe last month with hardly a change of underwear. While he and Mme. Bartok raced in a bus from Geneva to Lisbon, their baggage got sidetracked and missed the boat. In the music roll under Bela Bartok's arm was the manuscript of his Kitchen Sonata...
...What did he think about a fourth term?* 2) Had he entered into any secret pact with a foreign nation? 3) How did he justify running as a liberal and reform candidate with the support of the political machines of Chicago, Jersey City and The Bronx? Reading from his manuscript, Willkie attacked Roosevelt's foreign policy, the present role...
Jackson asked Trotsky for criticism of a manuscript. Amiable Host Trotsky invited him into the house. They entered, Jackson in the lead, carrying a topcoat over his arm. In the dining room Natalie Sedova Trotsky met them, and, Russian-fashion, offered the guest a glass of tea. Jackson asked for water, drank it without disturbing the topcoat slung over his left arm. Then Trotsky and Jackson passed into the study. Jackson did not put down the topcoat...
...study was a barren room with uncovered floors and cream-colored walls hung only with a large map of Mexico. In its centre was a long wooden table stacked with books and manuscripts. Trotsky sat down there, began to read the manuscript his friend had brought. Jackson leaned over his shoulder. From under his coat, where he had hidden a pistol, a dagger and an Alpine pick, he chose the heaviest instrument. If he succeeded with this, he would make no sound, do his work with one quick blow...