Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cynical, complacent and evil-browed rulers, politicians, moguls, authors and social climbers which your columns must perforce exhibit, the charming figure of Princess Elizabeth [TIME, March 15] stands out like the morning star of human faith and hope. Alive, intelligent, eager, energetic, she is the quintessence of beauty ... a blessing to mankind. . . . A. W. SINCLAIR...
...Curie arrived from France a fortnight ago, her overnight detention on Ellis Island stirred many a U.S. citizen to protest (TIME, March 29). News of her arrival also stirred the memory of French Expert Adele Starbird, dean of women at St. Louis' Washington University. In her St. Louis Star-Times column last week, Dean Starbird recalled a 1946 interview with Mme. Joliot-Curie in Paris. Some Curie-isms...
...Choice. Communists tried to counter the church's appeal by adopting an Italian hero who had fought against papal troops. The Red-run Democratic Front took as its emblem the head of Garibaldi, superimposed upon a five-pointed star. This week Christian Democrats distributed leaflets bearing their version of the new Communist emblem. The legend read: "Long live the Democratic Front? Turn it around and you will see the deceit...
Later generations of rats followed this policy. They went where man went, ate what he ate. They learned his ways and, hitched to man's rising star, flourished. At present the black and brown rats are more completely domesticated than horses or cattle; there are none at all in the original wild state. They are so accustomed to living with men that the best scent lure for attracting them, says Specialist Nicholes, is the man-scent...
...lover's regrets: "Oh, Sinkanda! I don't know whether you are more a fiend or more a woman," said Timothy, embracing her. "If only we could have met under other circumstances! It should have been different, somehow." Sinkanda's answer: "Ah, my friend, how many star-crossed lovers have uttered that...