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...that's only part of the story. Lord Burghley ran in evening clothes. TIME did a sloppy bit of reporting here-neglected to mention whether 1) Tuxedo or formal, 2) stiff or soft bosom shirt, 3) high shoes or dancing pumps...
...fallacies which man hugs to his bosom, the one characterized by Ruskin as "the pathetic fallacy" is the most common to romantic poets. As generally applied, "the pathetic fallacy" imputes to Nature the appropriate emotional states of the despairing, joyful or ironic poet. Poe's croaking ravens and ghastly rushing rivers were clear examples; T. S. Eliot used the same stage effects in more modern terms. Last week a new poet struck his lyre, and to ears that could remember echoes, the minor strains were far older than Ruskin. Not so much for his gently conventional verse...
...along, not because he wanted her but because she nagged him into it. She soon got tired of him, and he was glad to leave her for the War. Back home again, he became a hardworking, successful surgeon, an aging Spartan boy with a greying fox in his bosom. When an accident ruined his right arm, Katie left him. Meantime Beverly's wrong husband had died, so at last their tragicomedy of errors came to a rhymed conclusion...
Jean Arthur does a good job as the unsuspected adder in Gary's bosom, who exposes him to the merciless Manhattan derision. It is only when Jean breaks out in court with her self-effacing apologies that Gary lets himself fly into his grand flaying splurge...
...solo performer was a dark-haired, comely young woman who appeared in a low-cut Nile-green gown, bowed graciously to her audience, raised a gold trumpet to her lips, closed her eyes and proceeded to tootle. Her arm muscles twitched while she played. The ruffles on her bosom and the orchids on her shoulder fluttered fitfully with each inspiration. But otherwise there were no signs of exertion...