Word: shading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reminded more than once of another war, when Arabs, counseled by a stranger as wily, energetic and heroic as Odysseus, fought against the Turks for an idea as beautiful to him as Helen; may well have remembered some of his banished names when he wrote Odysseus' words to the shade of Agamemnon: "What an army of us died for Helen...
...University in Eliot House. Speaking on the subject of living conditions here and abroad, in which he is particularly interested, Lipson said: "There is, I suppose, a feeling that high thinking goes best with plain living, or that the student for whom life is made perhaps a shade too pleasant, is not being best fitted for the rough and tumble of the world outside. Personally, I do not share this view. For one thing, I believe that it is eminently desirable that men should be able to enjoy during their student days, which are usually the happiest period in their...
...medium he is requested by a banker to ask the late great John Pierpont Morgan what he thinks about the Moratorium. "Don't know anything about it," replies the shade of Mr. Morgan. "You better take the Berengaria." Mr. Carroll excites whoops of enjoyment from spectators aware of the city's political situation with a Jimmy Walker song ending: You can have your City Hall, I'll take A. C. Blumenthal...
...moment of reflection" and that he vished to see him. The meeting took place last week and Untouchable Dr. Ambdekar as well as high-caste Hindu leaders were apparently moved beyond endurance by the piteous sight of the Mahatma quivering on a cot in the prison yard beneath the shade of a mango tree. One & all they rushed away to patch up with the Raj some sort of settlement to which the Mahatma would agree...
...with the win- dow shut on account of his asthma, "in an attitude as inconvenient as possible: a bad pen, a half-empty bottle of ink. . . . He held his sheet of paper in the air and wrote without supporting it on anything at all. . . . He refused to have a shade fixed on the lamp that dazzled him." He became so completely absorbed in his writing that he once worked three days at a stretch. Once he sallied out to the Louvre to refresh his memory about a picture, did not realize until he got there that it was midnight. Proust...