Word: unbright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Answers for the Unbright. But most baffling to the witnesses was the Anglo-Saxon labyrinth for sifting evidence. Sometimes it seemed inscrutable, sometimes not quite bright. The defense counsel appeared to be bothered, for instance, when a fisherman said he had pulled "Wong's body" out of the river-and then admitted he had not known the deceased. "Then how did you know the body was Wong's?" Retorted the fisherman: "Wong's parents told me." Any Chinese could understand that, but it was "hearsay" in Anglo...
Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone? O waste of loss in the hot mazes, lost, Among the bright stars On this most weary unbright cinder, lost ! Remembering speechlessly We seek the great forgotten language, The lost lane-end into heaven, A stone, a leaf, an unfound door...
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