Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that for a hint, anyone could see that Lebrun's Armour was meant to be Roman, and that the three bent nails in the picture were the ones driven into Christ's hands and feet. But taken by itself, the painting was merely a competent and somewhat somber still life...
...period between the two Visitations of the comet was a tough time for humans and other inhabitants of the earth. The Chinese, he says, called this era the "Valley of Obscurity" and the "Somber Residence"; the Nordics called it the "Twilight of the Gods"; the Hebrews the "Shadow of Death...
Earlier in.the day he had cast his vote at St. Stephen's parish hall, South Kensington, for the Conservative candidate Sir Patrick Spens. Churchill spent election night at home, appeared the next day at his own constituency, Woodford, burdened with a gold-headed cane and a somber mood. Mrs. Churchill was cheerful. She introduced the Labor candidate, young Seymour Hills, to Churchill. Hills grinned a buck-toothed grin and flushed. Said Churchill: "So you're the Labor candidate, are you?" and walked away...
...rope served a more somber purpose. By nightfall it had been expertly cut and knotted into two nooses that swayed from the main beam of a double gallows in Fort Saskatchewan Jail, 20 miles away. Shortly after midnight, while a small group of witnesses looked on, the nooses were slipped over the black-hooded heads of two convicted murderers. The dark-suited little man, known professionally as Mr. Ellis, checked to make sure that the slipknots fitted snugly behind each man's left ear. Then he sprang the trap door and the prisoners plunged downward...
...from the old Russia. His contingent of astrakhan-capped soldiers and gaily clad peasant followers carried him along on a swelling surge of music flavored by the Russian folk songs which Nationalist Mussorgsky loved so dearly. Mussorgsky mined the rich vein of Russian liturgical themes to back up the somber, icon-bearing Old Believers. Led by the young zealot Marfa (Rise Stevens) and the fervent patriarch Dossife (Jerome Hines), they sang the opera's most exciting music...