Word: utters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Georges Seurat reacted from such peculiarities by being the most conservative of sons. He went to the reactionary Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he drew and painted in such traditional manners as those of Poussin, Ingres, etc. To the end of his short life, solemn, bearded Georges lived with utter circumspection, detested eccentricity of dress (the black suit and top hat best suited him) and was variously described by friends as resembling the St. George of Donatello, a young business executive, and a notary with the profile of an Assyrian king...
...take a chance on reporting a day late, and get some sleep, which I did in a fine hotel there. Having previously made arrangements for Pullman reservations to Wilmington, that evening as traintime drew near, I checked at the ticket window to make sure of my berth. To my utter amazement, my reservation had been taken over by a man who was visiting his aunt in Wilmington. Once again the suitcase and the coach...
...year ago in They All Kissed the Bride. Once he was only a voice: in Cabin in the Cotton, Bette Davis tuned in on the radio, heard Dodd preach a sermon. Dodd's favorite picture was It Happened One Night, in which he appeared but did not utter a word. In the film Claudette Colbert bolted a big lawn wedding just as Actor Dodd was about to start reading the service...
...ships to target to waves to altimeter to speedometer, his brain racing through the arithmetic of destruction and the arithmetic of conservation . . . and with all his reflexes working at once, thrusting past, around, and through each other, like the notes of some terrible symphony . . . that he must conduct . . . with utter flawlessness, knowing well that one flaw will kill him." Square in the Belly . Now he had reached the tremendous climax. Suddenly "the whole setup swam sluggishly into focus" and through the water, "like a pencil stripe," ran the torpedo's wake and Swede was away, whipping, ducking, sashaying...
...Your utter hate of F.D.R. and his Administration and, essentially, for all his works-[is] splattered venomously over most of the first pages of the May 10 issue...