Word: thees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barretts of Wimpole Street, presented on the new CBS dramatic series Front Row Center, was accented with the pleasant roll of Elizabeth Barrett poetry ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways") The best thing about the 1931Broadway hit, in fact, was the writing: unlike that of most TV plays, it was at least distinguishable from the commercials between the acts. Beyond the writing, however, The Barretts indicated again, as Front Row Center did a fortnight ago with Dinner at Eight, that it is next to impossible to squeeze a well-known stage play into less than...
...they say to him, behold thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. And answering them, he said, Who is my mother and my brethren...
...last week, a Hindu who wanted to get rid of his wife had only to say: "Get thee to thy father's house: I will take another." Hindu .custom permitted polygamy, although it was a general practice only among the rich and among India's 35 million Moslems...
...nuptials. The new bill says that marriage may be solemnized in any form the parties may choose, but it is not complete and binding until each party says in the presence of a government marriage officer and three witnesses, in any language understood by the parties: "I (A) take thee (B) to be my lawful wife (or husband)." Custom, however, still demands that bride and bridegroom each walk three times around the sacred fire and take their seventh step jointly...
Looking at your night skyline of Manhattan, I was reminded of a poem that I composed some 40 years ago ... I recall only two lines: Did ever a dream city rise from the sea That was fairer, more fleeting and fragile than thee? If you had asked me what the last adjectives meant exactly, I couldn't have told...