Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London recently Professor Joseph Barcroft, world authority on chemical reactions of the blood, stepped out of a glass case. His face, arms, lips, ears and nose had turned blue. His torso was a barrel of barred indigo; his legs two uncertain aquamarine tendrils; even his nails were blue. He looked like a figure from a futuristic painting. But this blue man laughed, chatted and showed to admiring fellow-scientists the notes of observations he had made on his blood-reactions during the week he had spent in that glass case. His blueness was caused by the fact that the case...
...lurcher-revealed by a street light as a big blackamoor in a stiff shirt (badly smutted) and a dented plug-hat-beamed amiably and continued his uncertain gambol up the empty street...
Marlborough House. About Marlborough House there still stalk, allegedly, the shades of the great Duke of Marlborough, "who taught uncertain battles where to rage," and his Duchess, the madcap Sarah, the wisest fool that ever time has made." Sarah, as everyone knows, deliberately slighted the great architect Vanbrugh by employing Sir Christopher Wren to design the "House" for her. Said she, when it was finished: "It cost ?50,000*. . . not really so extravagant, because it is the strongest and best house that was ever built...
Last week one S. K. Winn of Manhattan wrote letters to Dr. E. A. Alderman, President of the University of Virginia, to Dr. Henry Louis Smith, President of Washington and Lee, to John W. Davis and other noted southern gentlemen. He stated in no uncertain terms that, though he did not pretend to be an art critic, he had seen pictures of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, and that Sculptor Lukeman's figures did not look anything like them. Dr. Alderman replied: "I think the Jackson figure thoroughly unsatisfactory. It does not suggest Stonewall Jackson...
...were hardly aware, which the wisest doctor and the most discerning priest would need years to explore before they could half understand it. The attachment was a pitiable thing, the horrible confusion of a sexually uneducated boy and a socially uneducated girl with greed and social position and an uncertain racial standard and a kind of weird search for happiness. . . . Apparently his family lacked both sympathetic wisdom and practical judgment. But the lawyers were not emotionally involved. They could have kept their heads, and if they were any good they could and would have talked like a Dutch uncle...