Word: quests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lewis records "John's" journey in quest of the beautiful island he glimpsed mysteriously in the stern, unfriendly land of Puritania, where he was born. Puritania was strictly administered by Stewards who issued complex rules of behavior and clapped forbidding masks over their faces whenever they mentioned the Landlord. Searching for his island vision, John one day found "in the grass beside him ... a laughing brown girl of about his own age, and she had no clothes on. 'It was me you wanted,' said the brown girl. 'I am better than your silly Islands...
...that I have any objections to Billy Rose's avowed quest in life of acquiring money for its mere possession, but I do not see why such a pursuit warrants his picture as a cover for your illustrious publication...
...free world, many men, trying to get the issues straight in their minds, were attempting definitions. None put the strength of the free world's case better than did U.S. Statesman & Churchman John Foster Dulles this week, in a speech at Northwestern University. Said Dulles: [The quest for peace] "requires that the moral issue be clarified. That issue is not the issue of economic communism against capitalism, or state socialism against free enterprise. It is not an issue of relative national power. Those are not moral issues. The moral issue is the issue of the free state as against...
According to the rules laid down by their hostess, the gentlemen would have to bid in cold cash (which would go to a charity) for the ladies they wished to escort during the impending quest. Some of the ladies objected; after a democratic vote, the majority went along with the auction plan. So Master-of-Ceremonies Baron Stanley of Alderley (he's terribly good at this sort of thing) mounted a chair in the sitting room. Cried he: "Now, who wants Loelia?" (the recently divorced Duchess of Westminster). Bidding was sluggish, and the ex-Duchess finally went for seven...
...dresses. The News Chronicle's Columnist Ian Mackay was in a reminiscent mood. "May Day," he wrote of his youth, "to my eager young mind, was the great annual festival of freedom, when the quenchless spirit of the common man was continually refreshed and rededicated to the endless quest of love and friendship, liberty and peace among all the peoples of the world. How many of us even dreamed, as we marched starry-eyed behind the flags . . . towards our proletarian paradise, that we should find it so rigorous and austere...