Word: brinkly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...fishmonger's band blared "God Bless The Prince of Wales." Out of twinkling limousines stepped the Heir of Britain and his top-hatted retinue. Fastidiously they inspected the oozy, odorous docks, mounted a pot-bellied Yarmouth drifter, stood for a moment on the brink of a hold in which squirmed some 50,000 herrings alive...
...conclusion that a weighty and stirring appeal would pass through that microphone. With no official authorization whatever, they insisted that His Majesty was going to use the dedication of India House as an opportunity to make the speech of his life. Is not the Indian Empire on a brink? They recalled the occasion in 1921 when at Belfast the Royal appeal "Forgive and forget!" did much to end the Irish War. They prophesied that at India House the Emperor of India would pour such words into the Royal microphone as might well solve the Indian Situation...
...southern city (his mother, Martha Bulloch, came from a fine old Georgia family) where an ambitious hostess contrary to the orders of the reception committee, persuaded him to enter her home on the pretext that he would thereby give profound pleasure to an old family slave on the brink of death. The President, all innocent of the trick, was her brief guest, took a cup of tea from an ancient Negro servant. Claiming that the family of the President's hostess had owned no slaves, that she herself had hired the old negro for this occasion, the other ladies...
...make it plain: . . . neither of the principals of this theatre was conscious of acting a part. It was to this primitive lack of self-consciousness that the play owed its enduring charm. Without their suspecting it, the play . . . was hovering on the brink of a myth...
Next the Most Holy Miron Cristea proceeded to convene the Orthodox Rumanian Synod. These venerable priests voted that, in the eyes of the Orthodox Church, the King and Queen are man and wife. Parliament paused, on the brink of passing a Royal Marriage Act which would make them man and wife...