Word: braced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo Salon, Foujita rightly reasoned that his black bangs, Harold Lloyd glasses and whisker-fine brush drawings would please Parisians more than they did his fellow Japanese. He came to know Montmartre better than he had Fujiyama, strolled its steep streets in a leopard-skin hat, followed by a brace of tabbies on a leash...
...hoped that Harvard Hall will not be the final effort. People are still going blind in the New Lecture Hall. Students are still being won over to pessimistic philosophics in the gloom of Emerson. And sweating examinees still have to brace their bluebooks against the interminable wobble of the tables in Memorial Hall...
...opening sentence in the story really struck home ... I know just how tired the inhabitants of Kissimmee are of the stale jokes strangers make about their town's name. I know just how the citizens of Bird in Hand, Pa. brace themselves when an out-of-state car slows down and the smirking driver leans out and asks the way to the town of Two-in-the-Bush. I also . . . sympathize with all bearers of unusual Christian or surnames...
...hilly Centre County, attacked with rifle fire and stones before the drivers could rumble on to safety. At Grassflat, a $10,000 tipple of the Junedale Coal Co. was blown up by a 50-lb. charge of dynamite. One non-union mine owner drove off marauding strikers with a brace of .45 automatics; another was stabbed during an argument with U.M.W. pickets in front of the Hawthorn, Pa. post office...
...WATERS OF SILOE (377 PP.) -Thomas Merton-Harcourt, Brace...