Word: trickness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Submarine Torpedo Boat H. L. Huntley (1863) by Conrad Wise Chapman. One of the submarines built by the Confederacy during the Civil War. "She could be submerged, but had a nasty trick of plunging to the bottom and drowning the men within...
...this old song Joyce has played a characteristic trick. Besides reminding readers that they are in for an Irish evening, his title might be taken as a simple declarative sentence meaning that Finnegans wake up. Hence the implication: ordinary people (such as his hero) do not; the nightmare existence of Everyman ends merely in a deeper sleep...
Centuries of Austrian rule schooled the Czechs in the tricks of passive resistance. Last week word was passed around in Prague that it would be a good trick to decorate the memorial of John Huss, martyred Czech hero who fought for reform of the Catholic Church and was burned at the stake in 1415. On the eve of Conqueror Hitler's birthday, thousands of bunches of primroses soon made a bright carpet about the Huss memorial and in floral letters four feet high appeared the hopeful Czechs' national motto: Pravda Vitezi ("Truth Prevails"). Knowing well that such...
Kindly, near-sighted Burns Mantle (News) is, at 65, the oldest of the news paper critics. Nationally known for his annual The Best Plays of 19-, he is often sound, almost always dull. His best advertisement is his trick of rating plays by stars. Tops (* * * *) he gave this season only to the revived Outward Bound...
...York has done (Brigg's and McKenna's have them) and not only is there some excellent piano, but some of the wildest satire you've ever heard. The man deserves great credit, not only for having overcome a handicap, but for being an accomplished piano player (his latest trick being to play concertos after having heard them once), and for having carried on with a musical tongue in the check where Gilbert and Sullivan left...