Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caviar & Melba. Beverley began his glamorous career (in 1921) as a reporter for London's gaudy Sunday Dispatch. The aim of this journal was to supply its readers with "an astonishing array of obscure countesses, viscountesses and . . . wives of baronets, all pontificating with monotonous regularity on the problems of the hour." As many of these noble ladies were "barely literate," it was up to Beverley to invent their opinions in order to have something to report. The rest of his job was writing what the Dispatch called "caviar-and-champagne" items, e.g., MYSTERY DOCTOR DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF COUNTESS; ARAB...
...indiscreet lovers drink to each other, and go into a magic-potion trance. The stage darkens, the ruins of Tintagel fly up, the dusters, derbies and veils come off, and in a flash the trippers have turned into Tristram, Iseult, King Mark & Co., all revealed in brilliant medieval array...
...designed to impress cynical and worldly-wise adults, but, rather, is centered on the boy himself. The award of Eagle rank is the highest honor that scouting can bestow . . . Parents may prod, and leaders may coax, but the boy himself must do the work . . . After a formidable array of obstacles has been surmounted, no award ceremony is too great to convince the boy that for one night at least, he is on top of the world. (PvT.) ALAN F. HUGHES Fort...
Going Someplace at this time of year has a strictly limited circle of meaning for the Harvard man: one can Go Skiing or Take a Little Trip Down to New York. Since New York offers a various array of amusement opportunities, some sort of guide is needed...
...wrong with their news programs. Said Crosby: there is a "basic lack of understanding of the purpose of communications, which is, after all, just a conveyor, not an end in itself." Today's narrator, Dave Garroway (kittenishly billed as a 'Communicator") had "the most magnificent array of communications equipment ever put into one room . . . telephones, television monitors, telephoto machines, intercoms, wireless. Everything was 11 set in case anything was happening anywhere." But, for the telecasters, "nothng...