Word: copiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wood-Notes Wild. On that morsel of plot Novelist Dundy drapes copious flimflammery about father figures and love-hate syndromes that no one could possibly take seriously. Happily, however, the pursuit of C. D. ("Seedy") McKee brings Honey Flood face to face with stately homes and Soho nightspots, London fogs and Mayfair mayhem. She finds herself at war with the whole English race. It is a form of infighting of which Elaine Dundy is plainly a well-scarred veteran. Before she is through, any true-blue U.S. reader is likely to feel that even a money-mad American would...
...time Knopf told about H. L. Mencken--his birthdays, his jokes, and his work. It was Mencken who suggested that Knopf publish Mann's works in English. It was also Mencken who gave Knopf a "moustache cup" for his birthday so that he could drink without endangering his copious whiskers. Concerning his own birthday, Mencken once said "I used to spend my birthday in prayer but today I went to a brewery and the scheme worked fine...
Stalin, after copious draughts of vodka mixed with red pepper, had fallen asleep in his chair. Molotov, Malenkov and Beria, with fingers to their lips warned off intrusive domestics who might interfere with the great man's repose. While they guarded him, he had a dream...
Somehow, the Crimson managed to avert catastrophe until the last quarter of play, but then Harvard's copious mistakes finally caught up with...
Those who get to class take copious notes, mimeograph entire courses for the shutouts. Thousands of students have given up even trying to attend lectures. They merely register in the fall, study canned notes in nearby cafes, tackle final exams in May-turning Sorbonne students into what the alarmed French press calls "test monsters...