Word: strand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than 50 years, a landmark for Londoners (including Irish Immigrant George Bernard Shaw) was the flower stall on the Strand commanded by Mrs. Winifred Naomi Wilson. Last week the will of "Cockney Kitty" Wilson (who died in August at 77) was published, revealed that the prototype of the bedraggled Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and My Fair Lady had left an estate...
...Massachusetts, the New Haven Railroad cheered for a bill to give a $900,000 subsidy to the line over the coming twelve months. Unless it passes, the New Haven may make good its longstanding threat to cut off passenger trains on the Old Colony Line, which would strand thousands of Boston's South Shore commuters...
...first person out of her seat. She leaped through the hole. As she touched the ground, there was a flash of blue sparks, and she crumpled to the ground. In breaking, the tree had pulled down a 2,400-volt power line, left the wire draped as a single-strand shroud over the metal hulk...
...that he is doing huge pieces for important buildings, Sandy Calder suggests that he has changed direction. "After the Idlewild mobile," he said last week, "I couldn't conceive of small things." Then he reached for a strand of copper wire, quickly twisted it into a graceful, elegant ring for a pretty admirer standing near...
...years, were two bronzes (see cuts) that rank as masterpieces: ¶ A 19-in. statue of an Oni king in full regalia. Standing barefoot, clad in skirt, an amulet centered on his beaded hat, the Oni in bronze wears a bib of beads (presumably coral), a knee-length strand of larger beads (probably carnelian or agate), bead anklets, and wristlets. In his right hand he clutches a mace, in his left a ram's horn, the symbol of authority. Slightly idealized, it is unquestionably the portrait of an actual person. The present Oni says that at his coronation...