Word: watermarked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everybody bothers to examine the watermark on letters they receive. But Chelsea House's Dr. Fred Israel is the curious type, and this was a special letter-from U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam Ellsworth Bunker, who was writing on embassy stationery to order a copy of the 1897 Sears, Roebuck Catalogue. Israel held the paper up to the light and was startled to see a turreted fortress emblazoned with the word Conqueror. In a letter acknowledging the order, Dr. Israel added this P.S.: "I noticed the watermark on your stationery, and I am wondering...
Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the anonymous roller that pressed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap...
...Nakobov is best when his characters bear the same watermark as himself. Some of his "made-up" characters are good, but they cannot compare to the boy in "First Love," the aging lover in "Spring in Fialta," Pnin, or Humbert Humbert of Lolita, all of whom clearly resemble the author. Lolita, that beautiful and hilarious love story, is still his greatest novel...
...interest in heraldry suggests he may have been a nobleman, though his faulty Latin-the patrician language at the time-contradicts it. He very likely was well traveled; a Bern watermark appears on several prints...
Organized 98 years ago, the Prohis hit their high watermark in 1892, when their presidential candidate got 271,058 votes. Since then, they have endured a long, dry spell at the polls. Their most notable victories in decades were the 1942 election of a constable in a Kan sas township and the 1959 triumph of two town board candidates in Indiana. "I would to God we could elect one good honest dry politician," cried Arizona Evangelist Charles W. Burpo last week, but no Andrew Volstead is in sight and the party's prospects are at best as low-proof...