Word: brooding
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...quickly as you can, but when a direction is set, we all act together..." Then the invaders moved into the Mayor's house. Among them were Lieutenants Prackle and Tonder. Prackle was "a dancing-partner, a gay young man who nevertheless could scowl like the Leader, could brood like the Leader. He hated degenerate art and had destroyed several canvases with his own hands." Tonder was "a bitter poet who dreamed of perfect, ideal love of elevated young men for poor girls. ... He longed for death on the battlefield. . . . He even had his dying words ready." Only Colonel Lanser...
They are written in a kind of perfected prose-a prose stripped of all discursive verbiage and whittled down into functional verse shapes. Thus, of a hen mocking bird engaged in feeding her brood, Poetess Moore writes...
...rumpled man with cantilever mustach was giving the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Ships plenty to brood about. Greying William Starling Burgess, designer of America's Cup defenders (Enterprise, Rainbow and Ranger), whipper-upper of the automobile-engined Sea Otter (TIME, Sept. 29), had turned up with another ship innovation...
...this country chiefly through his tremendous reputation in Europe. Those who know his recording of the Tchaikowski Violin Concerto may recall that his style in that is brilliant and flashy, pretty much on the slick side, and he seems to be the only one of the Leopold Auer brood of violinists who has developed this way. It would be interesting to compare his concert Sunday with the old recording, and if the two jibe, to draw interesting and appropriate conclusions on the state of musical taste in Europe, where Huberman has enjoyed such fame...
Hopes for a Dorm victory hang on "Mutt Ray" Saltonstall, the sterling dorm center, and the intricate plays with which basketballer Ed Buckley has provided his brood...