Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wall are washstand and wardrobe. At night a bed 6 ft. 5 in. by 2 ft. 8 in. lets down from a 10 in. recess in the wall back of the seat, rests one end on part of the toilet (see cut). Over the single window is a Venetian blind. Because everything except the toilet and seats either hangs on, or disappears into the walls, most of the 5 ft. 10 in. by 3 ft. 7 in. floor area is left clear by day. At night, sitting on the bed the occupant has11 in. in which to swing his feet...
...pocket a half crown painted on her doorstep. For house wear her favorite garb was a cheap flannel nightgown, fastened by an emerald and diamond brooch, from which hung a sixpenny police whistle. She had more lawsuits than she could count and called her house Writs Hotel. Half-blind, bedridden, living in pigsty disorder, she stayed up half the night filling gaily bound notebooks with illegible maxims intended to be sold at Woolworth's. A typical letter of her last days reels off to her daughter a fearful jeremiad of grievances, dark suspicions, comments on the latest trunk murder...
...would-be fiction writer, I've made analogies between writing and painting. No Supreme Court, thank God, imposes upon us a blind followance of the rules of grammar. Similarly, no Hitler decrees that all painters must draw in perspective. Grammar and perspective are tools, not ends: they must be used, not worshipped. No writer wants his story to be merely schoolteacherish grammar. No painter wants his picture to be merely good architectural perspective. Both writer and painter do have a common purpose: the writer, to amuse, to shock, to entertain the reader; the painter, to amuse, to shock...
...brandy. Paris dandies of his day frequently carried sword canes; the Vicomte de Toulouse-Lautrec's cane held liquor. In 1899 he was confined in a sanatorium as an alcoholic, was led out in the company of a guard. After 'Ennry had hobbled back with the guard blind drunk behind him, the guard was changed. In 1901, his health broken from drink, he returned to his mother at the Chateau de Malromé, one of the family's properties near Bordeaux. There, at the age of 36, he died...
...that pulls together a mass of recently discovered Marlowe material, explodes a few hoary Marlowe legends, but leaves the poet as mysterious and romantic as ever. Making a studious attempt to avoid scholarly language, Mr. Bakeless nevertheless spends much time answering earlier scholars, tracks many incorrect interpretations down many blind alleys...