Word: wrought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guard was being changed at Buckingham Palace last week as Prime Minister Attlee drove through the wrought-iron gates. Attlee had come to tell the King, in an hour's audience, what members of Labor's Old Guard he was firing, what new recruits he was bringing into his Cabinet, in the biggest reshuffle since the Socialists came to power...
...phrasing is too elaborate," wrote the late Woodrow Wilson, in an old letter just made public last week. The professor-President was criticizing his own literary Style. "The transitions are managed too Smoothly . . ." he wrote. "The treatment plays in circles. . . . The sentences are too obviously wrought out with a nice workmanship. They do not sound as if they had come spontaneously...
Beneath the remains of classical Athens, the diggers found two Mycenaean tombs hacked in the living rock. The tombs contained three skeletons, two long bronze swords, other weapons and delicately wrought ornaments of the Age of Bronze. Judging by these remains, the diggers believe that the tombs date from 1400 B.C. At that period, ancient Greece was not yet Greece, for the real Greeks had not swept down in numbers from Thessaly in the north. Athens was probably a small city subject to great Mycenae, itself an outpost of the strange, semi-Egyptian civilization which centered on the island...
...Reparations to Russia? A. We [Hungary] wrought terrible havoc, our soldiers in the Ukraine, and we must pay for it. But if democracy grows here, there will be better understanding between Hungary and Russia...
Hinkley Manor, which "had never been restored or preserved or quainted up with spinning-wheels and wrought-iron lanterns," is a world of feminine ideals in which many readers will discover a Victorian heritage. Readers may have the feeling that they have read it all before, but they will enjoy the quiet patrimony of English charm which the author settles on her people. The Happy Prisoner often trembles on the verge of sentimentality; what saves it from toppling over is Miss Dickens' ability to create characters who are intimately, almost tediously, convincing...