Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were only two inches in their largest dimension, often pasted on the back of cut-down playing cards, but in their small compass Hilliard had captured much of the sensuous exuberance of the age of Drake, Spenser and Sidney. One was a self-portrait, at 30, fine-featured and candid-eyed, painted against Hilliard's favorite indigo-blue background. The biggest (see cut) was a 10⅛-inch painting of the buccaneering 3rd Earl of Cumberland. Besides portraits of courtiers, there were miniatures of a lovesick youth leaning against a tree, entangled in roses; a grave young man fingering...
Creatures of Circumstance contains just one disclaimer to Maugham's candid admission that "I'm a tired old party. . . . At my age, the spark begins to dim." The exception is The Unconquered, a story about occupied France in which a French girl is raped by a German soldier. Later the soldier comes back, learns that the girl is pregnant, falls in love with her and wants to marry her. In her hatred for the German and what he symbolizes, she refuses, drowns his child on the day it is born...
...Collier's last week, Big Jim Farley swung into a second lap of his "Why I Broke With Roosevelt" series with recollections of some candid talks he had had with F.D.R. about fellow Democrats...
Beyond the laurel bushes Paris buzzed with approval. Realistic Frenchmen rejoiced especially that le plan Marshall seemed to have a grain of candid U.S. self-interest. The liberal daily Combat was glad that "it is not because of Europe's beautiful eyes that America wishes to help...
Worst of all local establishments is beasted by "a dire on Trement Street," where the men's and women's divisions are separated by a partition which the candid chronicler discribe as "waist high...