Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of that stand, he has been accused of moving under the shadow of John Lewis. Murray denies the charge contemptuously. He was Lewis' man Friday for many years, but after his election he became boss. He declares that he scarcely ever sees Lewis now to talk to, and that Lewis pulls no strings...
...wrong side of the tracks. Later she meets Wyn, a bulwark of the Main Line upper crust takes a job as his secretary. Their romance, marriage and divorce are tainted by their irreconcilable social positions which Wyn's stuffy family never let her forget. That is the shadow over Kitty Foyle's youth...
...That Benny's as crooked as a corkscrew's shadow. He's lower than a snail's outlook...
...Foolishness (by Paul Vincent Carroll, produced by John Golden) is another misty Irish play, by the author of The White Steed and Shadow and Substance. Maeve McHugh is loved by three brothers-a farmer, a scholar, a Communist fighter. She finds herself unable to belong exclusively to any of them, but always wedded in part, if not in the flesh, to a mystical spirit. It is suggested that she represents Ireland itself. The author may have meant this or something else, but his drama is as vague and uncrystallized as the moonbeams that flood one of the scenes. Sally...
...Grolier Club's new show, he thinks, bears him out too. He sweeps an arm about the array of sporting books, which date neatly from 1340 to 1940, points out that many a lustrous treatise on hawking, angling, hunting was written in the shadow of the Church. The first printed English sporting book, the Book of St. Albans, was written presumably by an abbess. "The greatest hunting manuscript in existence." the brilliantly illuminated 15th-Century Le Lime de la Chasse of Gaston Phebus, observes: "There is no man's life less displeasurable to God than the life...