Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daughter of the King, Margaret has been a younger sister. She has never much liked the role. Not that she dislikes sister Lilibet or even envies her; she has just never enjoyed second place. In her turn, Lilibet has always treated her little sister as an unpredictable child who must be watched...
...launchings and dedications. By day, Margaret will have plenty of time to entertain girl friends at gossip fests in her rooms at the palace. Of an evening, she may go with a few carefully chosen girls and young men to the theater and a nightclub. The one thing she must not do is act like a commoner...
...main purpose of the pyramids was to give lasting protection to Pharaohs' mummies, but the slaves who built them must have seen the pyramids as foursquare symbols of tyranny at its solidest and heaviest. By contrast, the plans for Manhattan's U.N. Secretariat called for lightness, elegance-and fragility. The Secretariat's sky-filled, four-acre walls of windows, which might be shattered by a single bomb blast, would symbolize an optimism unknown to tyrants...
...novels of Britain's Ivy Compton-Burnett have received so much highbrow adulation that there is a growing suspicion that they must be unreadable. The suspicion has some foundation: when Elizabeth Bowen says that "Miss Compton-Burnett is always fundamentally truthful at the expense of realism," she is simply saying that many readers will never have the vaguest notion of what Compton-Burnett is being so truthful about...
Chaste Miracle. After that, Stanley Banks must have withered fast, because his family scarcely noticed him at all for the next few months. He was always somewhere around, though-in his wife's way, under the florist's feet, beneath the caterer's contempt-with his hand in his wallet and his heart in his mouth...