Word: musee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board of Estimate pledged a $40,000,000 budget cut-half in salaries, half in other expenses-to bankers who had helped the city out of a hole. After the salary cut had been made, Mayor O'Brien began to muse aloud to the Press to the effect that the rest of the reduction was just a "hope" which did not bind the city and that increased revenue from bridge tolls would be "very appropriate." From such talk the impression was inescapable that Tammany was weaseling on its economy promises...
...Coleridge was visited with the Muse and was henceforth haunted. Wordsworth was of the opposite poetic type. Whether the bulk of his literary achievements are so much greater than Coleridge's is uncertain. Whether his gift stayed with him to the last is likewise uncertain. He went on droning 'the still sad music of infirmity...
...this point the wanderer paused a moment to muse on the passing of an old friend, a building missed by few, and now supplanted by a modern aedifice that never will quite be able to recapture the dim religious light of its antiquated predecessor. But this was no time to think longer of old Appleton Chapel. On stormy nights even the new landmark will pass out of sight in the greyness of the night, just as the older building used to do, until, in fact, its unobtrusiveness had wiped it away from the slate of remembrance...
...pure the morals of playgoers in the Athens of America. The retiring stage censor of the Hub, John M. Casey, received his training for the post as trap drummer in a vaudeville orchestra, while his newly-appointed successor, twenty-eight-year old Stanton M. White, has approached the dramatic muse through a career as "art photographer" and county pay-master. Still further assurance of his fitness for the post of thespian Cato in Boston is found in the circumstance that Mr. White's father was once on the stage. That he is the son-in-law of Mayor Curley...
...vastness of the ocean tract, the force of the one vessel on the conduct of the other, caused the Vagabond to muse further on the underlying principles of the occurrence. What rules to govern the vessels of the seven seas? How determine the rights of yonder tramp steamer standing out to the Shoals? The bookcase resumed its original form again to answer these questions, and the Vagabond stared on, until from a maze of crimson jackets and calfskin bindings the words came out--Mare Liberum, Grotius...