Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with his encyclopedic familiarity with their history and customs, although some local peculiarities startled him. In Rome, at a royal Italian dinner party, he found that his hat was not taken until after he had escorted the Queen to the table. In Vienna, at the end of a similar affair, T.R. wrote: "The Emperor and all the others proceeded to rinse their mouths, and then empty them into the finger bowls." (Groping for precedents, Roosevelt recalled that the 18th century Austrian Diplomat Wenzel von Kaunitz had been in the habit of using his toothbrush at the same stage...
...master") and accused her of "riding the elephant of publicity in Hollywood," cadaverous Poetess Edith (Faqade) Sitwell, like a glacier overriding a grounded gnat, coolly crushed the New Statesman's slurs. Her letter to the editor: "I cannot see that . . . my appearance and personality are the affair of any but my personal acquaintances . . . They are not, as [your correspondent] suggests, an 'achievement' but are . . . inherited. I am not descended from my father only, but also from my maternal grandmother's family. You will therefore see that same appearance and personality in the effigies of the Planta...
...novels, one of the newest recruits to the genre, Cleveland-born Herbert Gold, 29, has focused on a hard-at-work groper. His first novel, Birth of a Hero, featured a middle-aged father of three groping for a new personality in an extra-marital love affair. The Prospect Before Us tells the story of a pudgy Cleveland hotel operator who suddenly starts groping for personal integrity instead of the fast buck...
...Jakes. Gils and Morrises, the banks and realtors all land on Harry: so do fragments of his own hotel tiles, loosened by an unfriendly hand. Stubborn Harry doesn't scare, but all he can salvage from his tiny, crumbling domain is a brief, implausible love affair with the Negro girl. Reverting to me-first principles, he sets fire to the Green Glade for the insurance, then, in a strangely selfless about-face, dashes into the flames and loses his life trying to save the girl...
Director Rothenstein's old enemies were using the affair for all it was worth. Trumpeted 75-year-old Sir Alfred Munnings: "An investigation of the running of the Tate is long overdue...