Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...century ago conservative Britons comforted themselves that their House of Lords was an anchor against the tempest of public opinion. A lord became a lord by appointment of the King, or by the happy chance of having a titled father. He owed nothing to any voter, and could afford (if he chose) to base his approach to any public matter on the dictum: "The public be damned...
...than a debating society filled with crotchety, beef-pink, ultraconservative old men. Nobody but the Lords themselves paid much attention to the House of Lords-and that could sometimes lead to error, as Britain's Labor government found out last week. In fact, the error blew into a tempest in which the government, to its acute embarrassment, got a severe tossing...
...From Hamlet's famous advice to the players: ". . . Do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness...
Canada Lee, one of Broadway's top ranking Negro actors (Native Son, The Tempest), turned disc jockey for Manhattan's WNEW. But he wasn't saying why: "One doesn't admit that one would like to make money...
...once have studied with Leonardo da Vinci, for though his drawing is less acute than Leonardo's, it has the same sinuous elegance-like a strand of hair afloat on the wind. But unlike Leonardo, he never painted a monster or a mask of rage or caught a tempest in his brush. Luini was limited and narrow, but like a narrow window standing open...