Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fanny Trellis, the toast of New York. Fanny has the gay blades of the city at her foot, but her erratic brother, Trimpey, becomes involved in a $25,000 swindle and Fanny has to marry the swindled, Joseph Skeffington, bachelor president of the New York Stock Exchange, to save face for the family...
...gold imbedded in masses of unpracticable quartz," according to Coventry Patmore. Hopkins introduced new rhythms, perceptible to the ear but dizzying to the eye. He coined words ("inscape," "instress," "scapish"); isolated prepositions ("What life half lifts the latch of, What hell stalks towards the snatch of"); left out connectives ("Save my hero, O Hero [that] savest"). Though sensory details delighted him ("skies of couple color, as a brinded cow"), his principal passion was the relation of man and nature...
...that it would solve the problem of getting payment for U.S. goods if the U.S. tries to export goods while it blocks imports by high tariffs. But believing that the roads are certain to be rough, the delegates felt there was all the more need for shock absorbers-to save the whole world from being jarred by every thank-you-ma'am that each nation hits...
...tired of thinking. "All I want to do is run an adding machine," he said, "but they won't let me alone." Yet in four days of .supposedly clerical work for the National Industrial Conference Board he scribbled an office-organization plan which showed how to save 40 clerks three months' work...
...some drunken soldiers shouted: "We're waiting for the Bodies!" Meanwhile Simone, Novelist Feuchtwanger's 16-year-old Burgundian heroine, lay in her attic room poring over the story of St. Joan of Arc. The Maid of Orleans, Simone read, had heard mysterious "voices" bidding her save France by fighting the invader. Soon Simone began to hear the voice of her dead radical father, urging her to do likewise...