Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hands of the Crime last Saturday, that the ulterior regions of their Ibis had been painted red some observers termed the color crimson-Monday night. In seeking a temporary armistice after Tuesday's fray, Lampy revealed that his stuffed Ibis, even more sacred than the metal one that stands vigil over Bow Street, had been lost in Saturday's revels...
...since) in a happy bond of mutual agreement. On the broad walls of well-to-do Victorian homes hung immense canvases which told stories that were easily understood and appreciated-the capture of a dishonest bank clerk at a crowded railroad station, Derby Day, a bearded doctor's vigil at the bedside of a sick child, a sailor's sweetheart gazing across the ocean. Most of these painted short stories had a helpful moral...
...again, on-again Gunder ("The Wunder") Hägg finally arrived in the U.S. last week. He did not swim over, as Manhattan newsmen had been suggesting he must be doing, during their month-long vigil at the docks; the speedy Swede came on a slow freighter, and he had sore feet from training-trots he made on the boat's steel decks...
...VIGIL OF A NATION-Lin Yutang- John...
Street Scene. In Kansas City, a labor picket, tiring of his eight months' fruitless vigil, knocked off for some deep-sea fishing off California, was treated to a farewell party by friends he had acquired...