Word: basile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might have been, the monster was a benison to the innkeepers of Inverness-shire. Reckoning its value as a tourist attraction at a good ?5,000 a season, the grateful Scots christened the beast Bobby and did everything they could to make him feel at home. In 1937 Dom Basil Wedge, science teacher of a local Benedictine school, reported that Bobby had hatched a brood of progeny. The little monsters, said Dom Basil, had been observed by his pupils, and each measured about three feet. At about this time the press took to calling Bobby Nessie...
...Hoyle's The Nature of the Universe (Basil Blackwell; 5 shillings), to be published in the J.S. this spring by Harper...
...seeking to be creative, he goes to extremes, and overcreates; when he isn't being literary, he is being lurid. And here, without the armor of style, he lunges out with every rusty saber of theatricalism. The Gioconda smile is rather a maniacal laugh. And the production-with Basil Rathbone hamming as the husband and Valerie Taylor brilliantly overacting as the woman scorned-adds thumping the pedal to banging the keys...
Part of the Britons' cool thoroughness was explained by their months of field training at Hong Kong, part by their commander, big, affable Brigadier Basil Aubrey Coad, who moved constantly through his positions on the Naktong with the cool aplomb of a duke at a garden party. During the first day's action, one British company was cut off. No one got excited. Coad calmly ordered the company supplied by tanks and an airdrop, and a U.S. helicopter went into the cut-off company and brought out its first wounded. The British thought this was a particularly admirable...
Doubting Critic. The man largely responsible for the New Statesman's success as well as for its political fuzziness is Editor Basil Kingsley Martin, who writes most of the lead editorials and a gossipy column about cabbages & kings signed "Critic." With his querulous aquiline profile and his tonsure-like ring of hair, 53-year-old Kingsley Martin well fits his role as omniscient dissenter and belligerent pacifist. His sense of martyrdom is irritating and sincere, once prompted the remark: "If you see someone who looks as if he is on his way to Clarkson's [a theatrical wigmaker...