Word: wintrye
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"Oo, la, la!" exclaimed Oliver Wendell Holmes to a startled aide who was attending him in his study one wintry day. "Young man," explained Mr. Justice Holmes, then a redoubtable 93, "I was thinking about walking down the street with a pretty lady and holding her hand behind her husband...
What was he there for? To strike an other nonaggression pact with Russia like the one he signed in the wintry days of 1944? To conclude scientific agreements that would mount the French tricolor atop Soviet rockets and send them orbiting around the moon? Or was he there to speed...
"Nobody goes to the Cape in the winter." The phrase haunts you as you speed down the Southeast Expressway, past the three-deckered homes of South Boston, past the innumerable suburbs. You didn't go skiing and the New York trip some-how fizzled out and you just can't...
Shortly after the murders, Capote was propelled to Kansas, a region that is as alien to his spirit as Mars, by the scarcely original premise that any truth exhaustively explored can furnish better story material than fiction. He dogged the story off and on for six years. A diminutive, eccentric...
Bundy's blend of wintry pragmatism and acerbic intellectuality appealed mightily to Kennedy, who knew him even before he became dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1953. Kennedy fleetingly considered Bundy as a possibility for Secretary of State, but finally installed him in a...