Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The time is 6:30 p.m., 88 years to the day after anti-Bonapartists raced through the streets of Paris proclaiming the end of Louis Napoleon's Second Empire and the birth of the Third French Republic. The scene: the Place de la Republique, in the heart of working...
Reporting on 91 patients who got his full course of injections. Dr. Murray said: "On no occasion has there been any suggestion of cure, but a good many patients have had very satisfactory palliation . . . After all other forms of treatment have been given up, as much as three years in...
Seldom before had so many fancy foods been set before the gourmets and gourmands-eel from Canada, white asparagus from Belgium, kangaroo steak from Down Under, smoked Ostyepky sheep's-milk cheese from Czechoslovakia. The occasion was the fourth annual Fancy Food and Confection Show last week, and buyers...
"By and large, the libretto was banal. Amid rare lyrical oases were arid stretches sounding as though Menotti's notions about love were being used to teach his Ruritanians basic English. Incidents of little significance were treated as moments of high drama. When the cook announced that her culinary...
After a stretch in the navy and in Parliament (he cozened the Scottish voters by dancing Highland reels and, on one occasion, importing 15 beautiful maidens of the Clan Macleod for a party), truculent Lord George Gordon became president of the Protestant Association. Gordon was a furious enemy of the...