Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adams, grubbing in the archives of the State Department to research his historical work, Marian and her salon had the tonic appeal of the latter-day businessman's double martini before dinner. After Marian's suicide, grief-stricken Henry Adams drastically curtailed his social activities, often spoke of his own death as coinciding with Marian's. Author Samuels believes that Adams oversentimentalized his tragedy, but points out that extravagant mourning was a 19th century fashion-Queen Victoria had the dead Albert's evening clothes laid out daily before dinner; the poet Rossetti buried all his unpublished...
Rossini was at the height of his powers when he wrote Ory. Frankly, I am not an ardent admirer of Rossini; and this work shows many of his weaknesses, such as poverty-stricken harmony and overly square phraseology. The libretto is scarcely more than adequate--Rossini himself used to say he needed nothing better than a laundry list...
...nearby village of Harbledown, Archivist Urry wondered why. The city treasurer hadn't the foggiest. So Urry peered down through history, found the grant's origin nearly 800 years deep. In 1170, his dreams darkened by the blood of Archbishop Thomas a Beckett, the conscience-stricken Henry II ordered the grant to the almshouses to be made in perpetuity. Hence, chirps Urry, "every time anyone living in the city of Canterbury pays his or her rates, he or she is contributing toward the penance made by Henry II" for murder in the cathedral...
...Adelle Beatty. Ostensibly in town to introduce Danny Kaye and other stars of Me and the Colonel at a benefit opening, Frankie took her to three parties on three successive evenings, particularly wowed Lady Northampton's guests. "Perfectly adorable," said Lady Lewisham, and Lady Dalrymple-Champneys was so stricken with the Sinatra charm that she gasped: "I'd like him to meet the Duchess of Gloucester...
...aeronautical engineer and military pilot, this time returns to his first love, flying. His Canadian-born hero, Johnny Pascoe, has been barnstorming the world since 1915 and, now in his 60s, operates a small airfield at back-country Buxton in Tasmania. Flying a mercy mission to rescue a child stricken with appendicitis, Pascoe crashes on a barren stretch of the Tasmanian coast. His skull is fractured, and he is tended only by the child's distraught mother, but his friends rally round. Chief of these is Ronnie Clarke, who volunteers to fly in a doctor through rough weather, over...