Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Psychology and personality are at the root of all scientific criminal investigation...
Prominent in this unpleasant situation is awl-eyed Sydney Greenstreet, a psychoanalyst who explains to married friends who would presumably know a shorter word for it that, according to Freud, "love" is the root of all evil. Physically appropriate as the frigid sister-in-law, Alexis Smith is less persuasive as an actress. On the other hand, Director Curtis Bernhardt and his colleagues exploit such action possibilities as the fierce, desolate murder scene with masterful detail, turn the story's emotions into something more cruel and vivid than a series of plot signposts...
Sickles was now in his 80s. To William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, says author Pinchon, he was a valued counselor; to veterans an adored hero. ("It is my guess," observed Sickles' friend Mark Twain, "that if the General had to lose a leg, he'd rather lose the one he has than the one he hasn't.") And, incredibly enough, he was still the terror of matrons with unmarried daughters. The great bureau in his bedroom was stuffed with silk stockings, lingerie and perfume; to a lady who said she would prefer to be rewarded with...
What this slogan meant, how it took root in France and invaded England, is the theme of this witty, intelligent history. Packed with anecdotes and character sketches of 19th-Century French and British bohemians, The Aesthetic Adventure is a fine companion piece to Author Gaunt's earlier, excellent account of The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy (TIME, Sept...
Born in 1771, the son of a farmer, Owen yearned to see the world. At ten, he be came a clerk in McGuffog's drapery shop at Stamford, England. There, lost in thought amid the bolts of cotton, he "began to see sectarianism as the root of evil. He noticed the conjugal bliss of his employers, that although Mrs. McGuffog went to High Church and Mr. McGuffog to Low Church, they drank water from the same well and the water was not poisoned...