Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...youth is bent by the same wintry fever...
...ragtime pianist, played in a local movie. (Says Hoagy: "She's 70 now, but she can still swing the bass handle.") At 20, Hoagy went to Indiana U., then a hotbed of hot music, and promptly began flying about with a flock of undergraduate musicians known as the "Bent Eagles." Their diversions: "Sensuously . . . stroking lemon meringue pie," "muggling" (smoking marijuana) and writing such deathless lines as: "One by one a cow goes by." Their byword: "There are other things in the world besides hot music. I forget what they are, at the moment, but they are around...
...mass of Indian brawn and "wild masculine beauty," young Holdfast Uncas Gaines just bent over, tore the 400-lb. cannon from its carriage on the deck. He'd teach old George Ill's British redcoats to mess with a Connecticut Yankee ship...
...Communist poster showed a scene of bucolic bliss, bent old shepherds with kindly faces, happy children in smocks, trim gardens, bright cottages with cream walls and strawberry roofs. Overhead hovered menacingly a black, evil-eyed eagle. The bird was labeled "Trusts"; the Red politicos claimed that any resemblance to the American eagle was purely coincidental. Last week, after scrutinizing a row of garish, importunate posters of several parties at the Porte de St. Cloud, a man in a flimsy raincoat spat eloquently, "Ça me dégoûte" (That burns me up), he said...
Recently, Kenneth Parker, of Janesville, Wis., sent in a kind of painting, done in oils, which he thought would interest and amuse us. An unidentified artist had painted it on wood bent at a go-degree-angle so that the picture could occupy the corner of a room...