Word: sunsetted
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...Phil Baker, whether by his own choice or not, is unfortunately relegated to a back seat and the audience gets little chance to enjoy his tongue. Of the skits, "Morning After a Faun" with Imogene Coca and William Archibald, and Red Marshall's gymnastics in "Red Rails In the Sunset" keep the aisles well filled...
...millions of words of news Americans get. nine in ten are not facts but opinion. To illustrate, Howe takes a sunrise, sunset, moon and tide report of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, presents it as it might have been written by A. P., U. P., I. N. S., Dorothy Thompson, Winchell, Lippmann, etc. Hugh Johnson version: "New Deal Janissaries are telling the world they have improved on Joshua who made the sun stand still. . . . Now I happen to know more about this subject of sun, moon and tides than I do about anything else. . . . If an outfit that...
Under the microscope, blood from a victim of malaria is as vivid as a southern sunset. In mild malaria, the red blood cells appear speckled with pink. In violent forms of the disease, the corpuscles darken to dusky copper, mottled with purple. These changing hues show the progress of the fight between invading malarial parasites and the body's defending blood cells...
Graf's mother, Tessa Heimrath, was born among Catholic Bavarian peasants who all their lives tilled, milked and spun from long before dawn to long after sunset. Like animals, they "observed without surprise or emotion the eternal cycle of budding, maturing, and deteriorating; year in, year out, their eyes and senses noted the uniformity of change." These peasants "always knew the names of the bishop and the ruling Pope, but rarely that of the temporal ruler." With deep misgivings they watched the war against Napoleon III, Bismarck's new Empire, the ascendancy of Protestant Prussia over Catholic Bavaria...
...This yearning for pre-Renaissance culture which exists in certain of our educational circles is a new phenomenon in the history of this nation. It may be argued that it is the harbinger of the sunset of the Renaissance spirit. But I belong with those who hold the contrary view...