Word: mislaid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cleveland, the annual egg roll had been souffleed to its present overwhelming routine. The custom continued for 63 years. In 1941 all records were smashed when a crowd of 53,258 turned up at the White House (ten were grounded with heat exhaustion, four fainted, and 73 children got mislaid). The following year egg rolling was banned because of the war. After the war Mrs. Edith Helm, the White House social secretary, denounced egg rolling as "an orgy of wasted eggs," announced that President Truman would not revive it. But two years ago, egg rolling made a triumphant reappearance...
...that. When Douglas realizes that his precious plumbing has actually been shipped in such a boat, he rushes to the rescue with a full panoply of American Efficiency: chartered planes, long-distance calls, press conferences, do-it-yourself. He is met by Scots Canniness: the wandering eye, the mislaid wallet, the pensive loiter, the unprevented calamity...
Author Rooney writes lively, intelligent dialogue, and knows well how to describe one generation pushing another over the brink of patience. But when The Courts of Memory trails Dick and Brace on their hunt for mislaid values, it becomes hard to feel sorry for characters who are already so sorry for themselves...
Twist of the Knife. Love mislaid on the altar of totalitarian politics is also the theme of An Epitaph for Love. Like the Green thriller, it is full of brooding atmospherics and clever character analysis. The hero, Harry Lucas, is a footloose English writer in Florence, inwardly reliving the wartime days when he worked with the Italian partisans. His most haunting memory : a tug of war between love and loyalty, in which he turned in his girl Nina to the partisan chief Giulio because she was a German agent. The wound is reopened and history re-enacted when Florence...
Nobody knows for sure who mislaid the virus. But the university's story has one odd twist: the tubes were found in a lab which had been used by Dr. Malcolm H. Soule, who committed suicide (TIME, Aug. 13, 1951) by injecting himself with snake venom...