Word: remnant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students of Marxiana, even the uninspired face of Zeppe, the vestigal remnant, should help to recapture the "good old days" when the Brothers' only comedy competition was Cal Coolidge. Chico, who triples as peanut-vendor, confidential agent and Minister of War in Groucho's parlor cabinet, shows the verve and talent for pantomime that has, in later productions, been drowned in a flood of dialogue and cute piano-peeking. Margaret Dumont, accused by Groucho of looking like an old tenement, is the perfect foil through bedroom to parlor to bedroom. If S.J. Perelman did not invent the gags there...
...human species, is to find a barren spot in Death Valley, a lonely crag in the Rockies, or an inaccessible farm on the Great Plains, learn the essentials of subsistence living, and settle down with a fearful prayer in his heart that perchance he will be among the scanty remnant of folk who may remain after the Atomic Age is over...
Long, a white-haired, bespectacled man, also decided that the Lord had slyly been training him as an oracle. Born in Turkey, he had been a missionary in Syria, Egypt and Palestine, had come to Pasadena in 1932 to found a minuscule cult called Remnant of the Church of God. But despite these qualifications and the vision, sinners paid no particular attention to his prophecy-at least, until last...
Last month in Mexico City, Juan Ne grin and a remnant of the Spanish Cortes met again. Of the 474 deputies elected to the Cortes in Spain's last general elections (1936), 127 have died - mostly by execution. The Mexico City meeting, mustering 94 of the 98 deputies now living in Mexico, named Diego Martinez Barrio Provisional President of the Spanish Republic (TIME...
...looks as if humanity is moving inexorably toward Armageddon and into the limbo of forgotten things, an oblivion of its own making. Only the remnant now left of what Mr. Wilson called the "enlightened conscience of mankind" can save the situation. Unless prompt action is taken it will again be "too little and too late," and this time destiny plays for keeps...