Word: sparked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Creatures of Circumstance contains just one disclaimer to Maugham's candid admission that "I'm a tired old party. . . . At my age, the spark begins to dim." The exception is The Unconquered, a story about occupied France in which a French girl is raped by a German soldier. Later the soldier comes back, learns that the girl is pregnant, falls in love with her and wants to marry her. In her hatred for the German and what he symbolizes, she refuses, drowns his child on the day it is born...
...that night, Wednesday, Red Top--the crew's headquarters on the Thames--was fanned brightly by a post-regatta celebration as the climax of its brief spark of 1947 glory...
...Christian Spark for Peace...
...represented by their great and spiritual literature. Proceeding on the theory that the way to shut out the darkness is to turn on the light, I believe that such an undertaking would do much to fan to flame in the hearts of the true Russian people the Christian spark which once ignited can never be permanently...
Arriving with all the polish accumulated during its long Manhattan run, "Anna Lucasta" combines enough punch and discriminate pacing to present a mundane theme in an engrossing manner. With an all-Negro cast that has added the experience of a long run to its initial first-night spark, this comedy-drama successfully handles the story of a prostitute who for the first time is loved for what she is, not for what she represents; and does this by neither patronizing the subject nor burlesquing it. The story is realistic without being objectionable, and includes just enough finesse to slip...