Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Main event of the Nizam's first trip "outside" in 16 years: a meeting with a few fellow princes and potentates for two days of reflection on the sad state of highnesses now that India is a republic. The good old regal powers were all gone; now they had nothing left but money-and the Nizam had most of that...
...must be one of many thousands in these Islands who were deeply moved by the manner in which you carried the sad news of the King's death . . . One section of your article said: "In London's High Court, when the news came, King's Counselor Harold Shepherd had just finished cross-examining a defendant . . ." The title is that of King's Counsel-now, of course, Queen's Counsel . . . Incidentally, the incident that you referred to was a trial of a murder case, and because of its nature . . . the judge adjourned it for ten minutes...
...lifeline: that is in the glow of living that runs through the book. Novelist MacMahon escapes the twin vices of Irish fiction, blarney and bathos, and he writes about his Ireland as if he had never so much as heard of Dublin's James Joyce and the sad, dark view he took...
...particularly when virtue is embodied in the lank form of Cinemactor John Wayne. In 24 years of moviemaking, during which he has played some 150 imperceptible variations of the same role, Actor Wayne, a limber-lumbering 6 ft. 4 in. man with a leathery skin and eyes like a sad and friendly hound, has become almost a trademark of manly incorruptibility...
...meeting with porters in Dunster House, Trottenburg declared that at the time of the Council's poll, service was "pretty sad." He added, however, that "the student porter system has improved tremendously and is now beginning to take hold...