Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made the year's prize wallpaper was from Copenhagen. His winning design was a hand-blocked strip of black & white leaves and flowers on a grey background. Judges also liked a busy strip of his, full of little men running like all get-out (see cuts). Bent Karlby also designs houses to paste his wallpaper up in. During the war he redecorated a Danish resort hotel, from chandeliers to ashtrays. When comfort-loving Nazis took it over, Karlby hurried home to print an underground newspaper in his cellar. The Nazis almost caught him, but he escaped to Sweden...
...many an adult Briton could bear-and it was too much for one W. Wright-Newsome. He took.his troubles, as Britons will, to the Times of London. Wrote he: "The BBC seems bent on turning the children into a new kind of drug addict. . . . The poor children grow more concerned from day to day about what Dick Barton . . . may do next than about their futures or the future of England. My neighbors confirm that when they turn [him] off . . . their children regard them as . . . tyrannic giants...
...Washington, the Modern Language Association of America accused the
U.S. of having an inordinate bent for hypocorism, i.e., baby talk.
Chief victims of adult hypocorism: 1) children, 2) pets, 3) lovers, 4)
readers of advertising.
Once in the Ziegfeld Follies he discovered Comedian Ed Wynn making faces at an audience from beneath the billiard table over which he was brandishing his famed bent cue. He conked Wynn with the cue, knocked him cold, beamed at the applause and went on without interruption...
...Chicago last week, two other visiting European composers conducted their own music. Rumania's Georges Enesco, now 65 and also bent with arthritis, led the Chicago Women's Symphony through his First Symphony and Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1, then played the violin in Brahms's Concerto in D Major. Shy, slight Zoltan Kodaly (rhymes with no dye), 64, Hungary's top composer since the death of Bela Bartok, conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in his bustling, folk-tunish Peacock Variations. Enesco is now an honorary Rumanian deputy; Kodaly an honorary member of Hungary's Parliament...