Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilcher was one of those choice eccentrics who, if English novelists are to be believed, still wander about the English countryside. He was a tough-minded conservative. He believed in God. He despised what seemed to him the shilly-shallowness of the between-wars younger generation and stoutly affirmed that the days of his youth, well before World War I, were the best a man could be born...
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...years of Chantrey buying, the Royal Academy selection committees had picked a high percentage of bad pictures and missed a lot of good ones. Wrote a Manchester Guardian Weekly critic: "Once the eye has been thoroughly glazed by the pompous onslaught of indomitable mediocrity, it is fascinating to wander limply through the galleries, no longer resisting ..." In the Spectator, Harold Nicolson suggested that a detailed, illustrated catalogue of the Chantrey purchases should be prepared (in order to keep a record) and the works themselves sent "to decorate Makerere College in Uganda or the corridors of some Fijian veterinary school...
...still, at 35, such "innocent gaum" (dumbbell) that when he gets a check for one of his first plays he doesn't know how to go about cashing it. But he is sustained by wonderful dreams and illusions in which he sees Ireland peopled by "golden boys" who wander through lanes "canopied by the sly innocence of the woodbine's dangling stems," while adoring lasses stroke "the faded, maybe bloodstained, cloth" of heir uniforms with "shy, white fingers." He dreams of poets who move through life like gods, never erring, never sinking into sordid realms of spite...
...months ago Adelheide was organized as a Christian Youth Village. The British military government was faced with alarming numbers of children who crossed from the Russian zone to wander, begging and black-marketeering, from town to town. Germany's Protestant and Catholic churches were called on for help. Both faiths agreed to make Adelheide over into a kind of coeducational Boys Town* and run it jointly. Today it houses 796 children-590 Catholic and 206 Protestant. On the Catholic side (a 22-year-old German law enforces rigid segregation in all joint Protestant-Catholic welfare enterprises) there...