Word: bosomed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...violently did the vulgar clasp him to its unclean bosom that the cultured upper classes reacted to any mention of his name as they would to a bathroom joke?they saw the point, but would not be caught laughing at it. This son of moonlight and custard pie crust was a green pea off the knives of the intelligentsia until statements of his began to appear in the public press to the effect that "Solitude is my only relief. ... I live with abstract thinkers, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Walter Pater. . . . Human contact makes me ill. ... I resolve to retire to some...
...shall define a triumph? The first night of Italian opera in London, Mme. Toti dal Monte swelled her ample bosom to emit the titular notes of Lucia di Lammermoor. Diffident boxes whacked their hands red. "A triumph," said the press next morning, meaning that Toti dal Monte had covered the work with her usual capability...
...cage near by, entered, fastened the gate behind them, dumbly gave back stare for stare through the wire mesh. From time to time, the monsters exchanged signs and left the bottom, risingly slowly and erect like dead fish on hooks. At the surface, they clambered to the bosom of their parent-the S.S. Arcturus-shed the globes from their heads, burst out talking-Explorer William Beebe to his associate Prof. W. K. Gregory-about the submarine scene they had been observing. Also last week, inhabitants of the human world attending" a tea-party at the New York Zoological Park...
...House of Lords. In 1905, he returned to the House of Lords as a Conservative and just as much at his ease as he had been in the bosom of the Liberal Party. He became a stern enemy of Lloyd George's radical budgets and, in 1909, advised the House of Lords to reject the year's Finance Bill and "damn the consequences." The House did. Two ensuing general elections brought their lordships face to face with the problem of whether they should pass a bill to abolish their financial veto or should reject it and cause King...
...character of Fricka seemed to become momently less goddesslike. Strutting in a manner little indicated by her role, she approached the wings, hissed a plea for silence. The voice went on. Fricka then took from her bosom a word that Austria has defended with the lives of 10,000 duelists, hurled this after her plea. The voice went on. It was a moment for desperate shifts. Queen Fricka, somewhat forgetful of the proprieties, spat a jet of saliva which, soaring through the group around the noisy raconteuse, settled on the shoulder of a Valkyr...