Word: bilious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty-year-old Marchand had had a young girl friend and model whose classic head and swan neck he turned into Picassoid portraits-hammered, twisted, bilious. Then one day-so said Parisian rumor-Picasso had taken Marchand's girl for himself, and put her beauty in a classically simple and straightforward etching (TIME, July...
...After reading countless blasts against Anglophobic Bertie McCormick, I discover, to my confusion, an item written in the same bilious, morning-after style of the Chicago Tribune. I refer to the account of Columnist Nat Gubbins' tirade [TIME, May 13] against...
Parodies of TIME writing usually begin like "Outraged was snaggletoothed, bilious, ambidextrous Herman Zilch ..." But nowadays TIME editors do not think highly of backward syntax except as an occasional way of emphasizing a point. Spacesaving sometimes forces us to use a string of adjectives to give a thumbnail sketch, but we prefer nouns that make adjectives unnecessary...
...Never use the tautological phrase "old veteran." (All veterans, insisted the editor, were old.) Ickes promptly wrote "old veteran" into his first piece of copy, survived, and was offered a staff job at $12 a week. He rejected it, switched to the Chicago Tribune and became a regular reporter Bilious Bertie. It is at this stage that the Tribune's Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick first appears, never to be ab sent again for more than a few chapters...
...Colonel was to haunt Harold Ickes like the cloaked villain in a melodrama, sometimes under the Ickesian aliases of "McComic" or "Bilious Bertie, the bingy bully...