Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reminiscently, Truman went on: "When I think of this place in 1789 as a swamp, there are some most interesting things that have taken place here. . .It is said that John Quincy Adams used to go down there [pointing to the Potomac River] and swim in the mornings, instead of taking a walk, as I do. It is said on one occasion that a lady. . .went down and sat on his clothes and made him promise her a job before she would let him out of the water...
Everything about The Pearl is done with tenderness and devotion, and is moving because of that. Now & then-during the breath-stopping dive for the pearl, the flight across the swamp, or a hair-raising moment when a scorpion crawls down a rope towards the baby-the picture comes fully and fiercely to life. But too often the film's makers confused genuine artistry (which requires a clear, tough sense of reality) with the woozily "artistic...
...Swamp conditions froze traffic around the Square and made sidewalks nearly impassable as a driving rain drove the 37 inches of snow, a record depth since 1930, into a nine inch layer...
Scouts Chief Boston and Harry Jacunski, who saw Rutgers swamp Lehigh a week ago, spoke respectfully of the Scarlet line and of backs John Sabo and Irwin Winkelreid. Crimson eyes should also focus on two second stringers who broke up last year's game in the fourth quarter--quarterback Al Malekoff and halfback Harvey Grimsley...
...average Manhattan gallerygoer will no longer jump and yell if confronted with an abstract maze or a surrealist swamp. But last week he had something to sigh with relief at: an exhibition as bright, pretty and woodenly realistic as a carrousel. The kale-green landscapes, rosy nudes and white-faced clowns all showed the hand of a contented craftsman. All bore a bold, neatly curlycued signature, Bombois, Clle...