Word: nook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college that's really on the beam? Fill the stands on Saturday and watch us back our team!"). Twice a day, they snarled traffic with their jalopies, peddled tickets to pedestrians and motorists. Each afternoon they had a six-piece band jiving in front of the Book Nook store. Covering every angle, they even patched the hole in the stadium fence so that grade-school kids could no longer sneak in free...
...down with a train much, and she laughed and said not much. "Of course, this place is practical when you are entertaining the Prime Minister of India, but it's hard bringing up a family in it. Imagine eating breakfast on that enormous table. We tried to build a nook some place but couldn't....Of course, this ball room came in handy when the boys had their electric trains...
Much to their credit Producer Pandro Berman and Director Vincente Minelli have stoutly refused to spice up the sin or gloss over the grimness of Emma's life. Instead, at a leisurely and often-lagging pace they have pried into every nook & cranny of Emma's avid, neurotic soul and the drab existence that nourished it. The handling of bumbling peasants and pompous tradesmen has an acid authority. One memorable scene-a whirling, overheated ball at a local château-is a wonderfully skillful projection of Emma's half-swooning sense of her own seductiveness...
...audience had pushed into every nook of the University of Chicago's Rockefeller Memorial Chapel and several hundred spilled over on to the lawn outside. At 8:30, a kindly-faced man, with the tiny red rosette of the Legion of Honor in the lapel of his grey suit, nudged his way through the chancel, climbed up on the organ bench, stretched his legs, and began Bach's Prelude in C Major. As he wove the huge fabric of the fugue, never losing a single thread of it, his listeners understood why Marcel Dupré is considered...
...rich specimens mined from out-of-the-way pockets of the British isles. If E. Glyn Lewis' essay on Welsh literature and Rhys Davies' rich, Chaucerian story about a sin-hunting minister are at all representative, this section is having a lively cultural revival. Precisely why this nook of the world should be so awake when so many other parts of it are dozing will prove a neat problem for some future historian...