Word: out-of-the-way
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...anguished accents: "I am taking you into my confidence because I have a nasty job to do. You must not breathe a word of this. We are being sold today, and I am an absolute wreck." Speed ordered stunned Reporter Johnson to lock himself in the musty, out-of-the-way office of the Antiques editor, there write the story of the death of the 116-year...
...Just Wait." Hughes has no office, apparently because offices are too easily invaded by people. He likes to make business appointments at out-of-the-way spots, usually at night, and he is always 20 minutes to two hours late, if he shows up at all. He lives in a rather ornate house rented from Gary Grant, to which very few male visitors are admitted, and on which he seems to have made no marks of his own occupancy. He has no chauffeur, no cook, no valet-in fact, no servants in the ordinary sense but a quartet of aides...
...Disney! The Superior General of the missionary Paulist Fathers, the Very Rev. James F. Cunningham, writes of the Paulist "trailer missions" which since 1939 have been touring out-of-the-way parts of the U.S. some of which have never seen a Catholic before. Last summer the Paulists operated six trailer chapels through Texas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Missouri and Utah showing movies, preaching sermons, answering questions. Motion pictures are powerful aids in dramatizing religion, and the Catholics use them widely, but there is a shortage of good up-to-date material. One priest is quoted as exclaiming wistfully: "Oh, what...
Leonora Carrington struggled back over that precipice and still struggles to paint the visions that haunted her private void. Except for those visions, her present life is a model of domesticity. She lives with her two children and second husband (a news photographer) in an out-of-the-way house in Mexico City, strolling out once a day for the mail, and painting at night...
...aware of the fact, but while they painted, the astronomer Copernicus was calmly pulling the earth out from under their studios. Even in the Renaissance, a scattering of prophets such as Savonarola kept repeating that man is mere dust; but never before Copernicus did anyone suspect what out-of-the-way dust man was. When Copernicus squeezed the world into a ball and set it spinning through the blackness of outer space, he did much to destroy the importance of man in art as well as in the universe...