Word: charioteer
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...that moment the loud approaching sound of a motorcar was heard in the drive. From this chariot there stepped swiftly and lightly none other than the gifted wife of Sir John Lavery. 'Painting! But what are you hesitating about? Let me have a brush-the big one.' Splash into the turpentine, wallop into the blue and the white, frantic flourish on the palette . . . and then several large, fierce strokes and slashes of blue on the absolutely cowering canvas. Anyone could see that it could not hit back. . . . The sickly inhibitions rolled away. I seized the largest brush...
Divorced. Arch Selwyn, 62, longtime Broadway producer (Private Lives, Wake Up & Dream, the first Chariot Revue); by Violet Brownie Selwyn, 51; after 34 years; in Los Angeles...
...Liberals and Labor. Before the speech there had been many signs that Britain was swinging leftward. If this trend was really fundamental, no one speech-however great-could permanently halt it. But, after the speech, Winston Churchill's domestic intentions were clear: he proposed to drive the Tory chariot right through the war to a straight coalition, khaki-elected, postwar government, dragging Liberal and Labor defectives willy-nilly. Whether, now 68, he hoped to retain his personal ascendancy after the war was beside the point (he had said: "I have no personal ambitions"). But that Winston Churchill, the world...
...hurdy-gurdies. His tenors and sopranos bellow lustily. His triumphal scenes contain not only singers and ballet dancers but live donkeys and horses, sometimes elephants and camels. In a fit of showmanship a few years ago he signed up Jack Johnson, Negro heavyweight emeritus, chained him to an Egyptian chariot, plastered Manhattan with billboards advertising "Jack Johnson...
...Chariot, a saucy little filly, had flounced off with the Thousand Guineas and the Oaks. Big Game, a rugged, easygoing colt, had taken the Two Thousand Guineas. Now it was up to Big Game again, and loyal Britons made him the hottest Derby favorite since 1918. With Imperial pride, the crowd followed the royal colors: out in front at the half-mile, the mile, the mile-and-a-quarter. Then suddenly the purple & gold seemed to stand still. In front at the finish was the Earl of Derby's Watling Street...