Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...places. Elsewhere it stumbles over metrically awkward phrases or inconsistent imagery: "But when we got there the manger was bare./ The land was sore athirst." Consequently, the Magi seem to progress with the poem in a series of starts and stops. It is appropriate for them to stumble occasionally, but they never seem to be really moving enough to have occasion for stumbling...
Singh & Co. had succeeded in excluding or scaring off irrepressibly anti-Communist Asians. The Philippines refused to send a delegation, no South Koreans were invited. Two Formosans who asked for admission as observers were turned down, as were two Turkoman refugees from the U.S.S.R. But all the Communist nations of...
Insull has charged that Schlesinger, in his book The Crisis of the Old Order, and nine Scripps-Howard Illinois newspapers stated that he and his father, Samuel Insull, Sr., "in effect were convicted of certain crimes when," Insull claims, "in fact we were acquitted on every occasion."
Robert Coates, self-styled "Gifted Amateur," was not just a bad actor-he was so execrable that Londoners of the early 19th century fought at the box office to see his performances. Groundlings came to the theater carrying almost every conceivable throwable object,* causing such terror among Mr. Coates'...
That was too "sincere" for Whitehall Pharmacal Co., maker of Kolynos; it canceled its $300,000 Kolynos account with Grey. "Whitehall had been about to give us more business," Fatt explained ruefully, "and now they've taken even this away." Not every adman was convinced that a veteran of...