Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...city) seen in a recurring nightmare. The broken bits of mirror reflect bittersweet scenes of past summers, and brown, foggy glimpses of London; a hysterical woman in an ornate boudoir like a candlelit tomb; women in a pub talking of postwar problems ("Now Albert's coming back, make yourself a bit smart. / He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you / To get yourself some teeth...
...make of it,-Except of course, the saints...
...main beam of a double gallows in Fort Saskatchewan Jail, 20 miles away. Shortly after midnight, while a small group of witnesses looked on, the nooses were slipped over the black-hooded heads of two convicted murderers. The dark-suited little man, known professionally as Mr. Ellis, checked to make sure that the slipknots fitted snugly behind each man's left ear. Then he sprang the trap door and the prisoners plunged downward...
Said Manager Kachouk: "Maybe we can make him Ivan Jadan again instead of John the gardener." Either way, "John" ("I like this name") would be happy. Right now, his first objective is to earn enough money to bring his wife and son north from New Orleans to join...
...history on club life at Harvard last week, the Alumni Bulletin printed some reflections of Philosopher George Santayana. "The spirit of Harvard . . . seems to one of my generation to be changed, in the sense that it has carried out completely the ideal of President [Charles William] Eliot, *to make it an integral part, and a servant of the contemporary world. But in my time there still stirred ... a certain speculative and moral freedom. We still dared to prefer the end of life, realizable in every free and happy moment, to the means of keeping the world going faster and faster...