Word: limpse
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Mike Quill, who carries a briar stick and limps around with a bullet in his hip, which he got in the Irish Republican Army, has been fighting since he was a Boy Scout. He started his labor career in the U. S. as moneychanger in a subway booth, got interested...
The house received the speech with marked apathy. Members rose and left, until fully one-third of the seats were empty. When he finished, not a single Cabinet member was present. The people, when they heard of it, received the speech with more than apathy-disappointment that they had not...
The play has many picturesque moments, one towering one: the trial scene, with Christ, surrounded by saints and angels, in the Judgment Seat. At high moments, Cenodoxus is capable of a stern eloquence; at low ones, of a quaint humor. But except as a spectacle, the play limps, largely because...
Wise Tomorrow* (by Stephen Powys; produced by Bernard Klawans). Tucked into programs at Wise Tomorrow's, opening was a printed enclosure: "Miss Barrett's limp is due to a sprained ankle." Long before 11 o'clock the play had developed other limps much more pronounced than Miss...
A Japanese shipping agent in Manhattan buys a cargo of rusty old rails, iron pipe, sawed-off steel girders, stoves, smashed automobiles. He loads it into a creaky freighter already headed for the junk heap. Manned by Japanese, the ship takes on enough coal for one voyage, limps south through...