Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...That Benny's as crooked as a corkscrew's shadow. He's lower than a snail's outlook...
...Foolishness (by Paul Vincent Carroll, produced by John Golden) is another misty Irish play, by the author of The White Steed and Shadow and Substance. Maeve McHugh is loved by three brothers-a farmer, a scholar, a Communist fighter. She finds herself unable to belong exclusively to any of them, but always wedded in part, if not in the flesh, to a mystical spirit. It is suggested that she represents Ireland itself. The author may have meant this or something else, but his drama is as vague and uncrystallized as the moonbeams that flood one of the scenes. Sally...
...Grolier Club's new show, he thinks, bears him out too. He sweeps an arm about the array of sporting books, which date neatly from 1340 to 1940, points out that many a lustrous treatise on hawking, angling, hunting was written in the shadow of the Church. The first printed English sporting book, the Book of St. Albans, was written presumably by an abbess. "The greatest hunting manuscript in existence." the brilliantly illuminated 15th-Century Le Lime de la Chasse of Gaston Phebus, observes: "There is no man's life less displeasurable to God than the life...
...with the shadow...
...daze the House passed the bill, 206-to-139. With Mr. Ramspeck to the White House last week must have marched the ghosts of all the Presidents who have been harassed to desperation by appointments; President James A. Garfield, slain by a disappointed office seeker; perhaps even the shadow of Louis XIV, who said: "Every time I fill a vacant office I make 100 malcontents and one ingrate...