Word: cavaliere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S [March 11] direct quotation of Mr. Wolcott Gibbs's opinion on the Maxwell Anderson-Truckline Café fracas seems a bit cavalier on the surface, since Mr. Gibbs's published New Yorker version is worded quite differently from TIME'S. Realizing, however that TIME...
But Dreiser was far less a theorist than a humanist; essentially his novel is not a social thesis but the timeless story of family life. Of Solon's five children, one is set apart by her homeliness; one is a born Pharisee; one is a self-conscious beauty; one...
Fifteen years passed. England was torn by civil war. Honor, crippled for life, was politically very much on her toes; she sped about the King's business in a wheel chair. Richard, very unhappy with his wife (he now had "a brown, weather-beaten air about him"), was appointed...
Though he sometimes slips into their highfalutin language, Jazzman Condon scorns the earnest critics of jazz-and once earned the gratitude of his colleagues by his cavalier attitude toward a French expert on le jazz hot. Said Eddie: "I wouldn't think of going over there and telling them...
* The three longest: the 18-year Cavalier Parliament (1661-1679), the 13-year Long Parliament (1640-1653), the eleven-year Elizabethan Parliament (1572-1583).