Word: antediluvian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against Eroticism. To the Blue opposition the Duchesse rallied an impressive phalanx, including the Comtesse de Pange and onetime Actress Judith Cladel, 86. But the Simone forces seemed stronger; among others, the Red leader had lined up antediluvian Prix Fighter Saint-René Taillandier, Novelist Jeanne Galzy and Germaine Beaumont, a jury sitter of indeterminate vintage ("Age is fiction"). The week before the balloting, three lined-up Simone voters came down with the grippe. In silence, at the deciding luncheon, the embattled ladies spooned their bombe glacée. When the voting began, the committee was deadlocked, but under pressure...
...with Shakespeare. In House Party, four men and four women meet and mate. This puts Author Rowans on a par with Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, apart from which House Party resembles A Comedy of Errors. To the antediluvian Ames mansion at Pruitt's Landing, an "unspoiled" Long Island town, repairs the following partial cast of characters, some Ameses and some not: a superannuated dandy who is chauffeured about in a Hotchkiss landaulet; a Manhattan model; a frustrated young architect who works for Vahan Rabadab Associates ("All Rabadab buildings looked like banks of file cabinets with the drawers...
AMERICAN MOTORS, which has not paid dues to the National Association of Manufacturers for three years, has withdrawn from the N.A.M. because of "fundamental disagreement with its policies." Automaker charges N.A.M. with an "antediluvian attitude toward labor...
...clear that Ike has abandoned his famed middle-of-the-road position. ("Too static," explained the White House.) He had toyed, he said, with the idea of calling his kind of Republicanism "progressive moderate." But now he thought that "dynamic conservatism" was the best term: "We are not antediluvian, nor are we trying to be men from Mars." Bedrock Conclusions. When he had finished, the national committeemen pounded the tables in delight. Whispered one committeeman to his neighbor: "Why. that's the first real honest-to-goodness Republican political speech I've heard him make." But the committeemen...
...diseases may be by sure means prevented or cured not excepting even that of age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure beyond the antediluvian standard. -Benjamin Franklin...