Word: rest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stryker faced Hiss. His voice was choked with emotion. "Alger Hiss," he said hoarsely, "this long nightmare is drawing to a close. Rest well. Your case, your life, your liberty is in good hands." The summation had taken just over four hours...
Solid Ground. "Man needs faith," said Ortega, "he needs belief as a soil and a solid ground where he may stretch his limibs and rest." Man is constantly getting lost, he conceded, but being lost is actually a "dramatic privilege" and not an evil. When lost, the man who has faith turns himself into an instrument of orientation "to guide him and to return him to himself ... If man had not been lost, countless times, on land and sea, the points of the compass would never have been developed...
Observed Manhattan's National City Bank: "The speed with which adjustments are moving may lead to a demonstration, earlier than the pessimists now expect, of the recuperative powers that rest in business itself...
...Largesses of the House of Life and Director of the Black Vase, died and was buried. Like other aristocrats of his time, the Master had been a forward-looking sort. It had struck him or his heirs that vandals might break into his tomb some day, and disturb his rest by injuring the head of his mummy. Just in case, a substitute head, a stone portrait of himself, was carved and placed in his tomb as a reserve resting place for his spirit...
...Francisco Symphony, came asaving. Last fortnight, his shoe-button eyes shining, Monteux was in the pit at Amsterdam's Stadsschouwburg theater. Onstage as Orfeo was Kathleen Ferrier (TIME, March 14), the English girl whose sumptuous contralto has earned her first title to the role. The rest of the cast, including a first-rate soprano named Greet Koeman, was Dutch...