Word: braced
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...through three long acts: hack-work by a great playwright Shaw's intention, no doubt, was to present a series of unjust sentiments in elegant language, but all that he actually achieved was a preposterous plot, a smattering of coy jokes and wheezy epigrams, and a brace of cardboard characters (there's even a comic Cockney...
...INHERITORS (233 pp.)-William Golding-Harcourt, Brace & World...
While her daddy is a summer bachelor next month, 4½-year-old Caroline Kennedy will join the jet set, gosling league, by making her first trip abroad. Accompanied by her mother and a brace of Secret Service agents, the President's pixyish daughter will fly via commercial jetliner to Italy for a two-week vacation with her aunt, Princess Lee Radziwill, in a Neapolitan duke's lofty villa on the cliffs of ancient Ravello...
...Curtis now suffers the embarrassment of offering its readers costume jewelry. The new economies the company has announced also fly in the face of the old Philadelphia tradition: fortnight ago, the Post announced it would move its editorial staff to New York during the summer; in final disillusionment, a brace of senior editors resigned. Other cutbacks, Curtis says, will save the company $6,000,000 a year. In a move toward new efficiencies, Curtis named Post Managing Editor Clay Blair, 37, vice president plenipotentiary-in charge of economies, modernization, new systems and editorial departments...
...HEART TO ARTEMIS (316 pp.) -Bryher-Harcourt, Brace & World...