Word: perched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lucien dies in the tenth reel, after the reunited brothers have toppled Colonna. The remaining half of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. lives on to win the girl and mouth such Shakespeareanisms as: "With love's light wings do I o'erperch these walls." But he doesn't perch the way his father...
...Swinburne on Emerson: "A gap-toothed and hoary-headed ape, carried at first into notice on the shoulder of Carlyle, who now in his dotage spits and chatters from a dirtier perch of his own . . . fouling...
Chinese Puzzle. In Ogdensburg, N.Y., a fisherman swore that he caught a pickerel, opened it, found a bass, opened it, found a live perch...
Fortnight ago a bald little Japanese general nicknamed The Razor became Premier of Japan. Hideki Tojo's* sparse mustache looks as if it might blow off in a stiff breeze and his tortoise-shell spectacles have a slightly cockeyed, precarious perch on his nose. Nevertheless the world press shuddered with apprehension that The Razor might be the raging snickersnee that the Japanese Army had been crying for, that Japan's months of indecision would now be resolved by mad swipes at Siberia, at Singapore, or at both...
...stake. For Minnesota, undefeated this season, was ranked No. 1 in last week's Associated Press poll. Michigan, also undefeated, was ranked No. 3 (No. 2: Texas). The scrappy Wolverines, still clinging to Yost's "punt, pass and a prayer," were bent on kicking Minnesota off its perch...