Word: cornsilk
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...staring into the limpid eyes of a plump chestnut mare.“No!” she shrieked at the footman. “I told you to bring a stallion!”************In her modest chambers, Roxanna sat in a ray of sunlight, brushing her liquid cornsilk locks. She was only wearing her shift; it seemed foolish to put on more clothes when Frederick would be arriving at any minute.There was a knock at the door, and Roxanna leapt up, ready to greet Frederick with the basket of fresh biscuits she had made for him that morning...
Knight, 39, may not have aspired to be a sex symbol, but she is possibly protesting a little too much. After all, 20 years ago she set out for Hollywood from Kansas with little more than cornsilk blonde hair and with legs, so the expression goes, that went all the way down to the floor. Shortly thereafter she was a Sunday supplement cover girl possessed of "a dewy freshness that is a blessing to behold." But Shirley was also a natural actress before cameras. Before long she had earned two Academy Award nominations (for Sweet Bird of Youth...
...opens with a four-note theme of palest yellows made of three narrow stripes and followed by a wider one-much like the "V for Victory" opening of Beethoven's Fifth. However, Noland's sprightlier pastorale modulates into a green andante, followed by an adagio of cornsilk white, a reprise of mint, and a coda built around a bland band of airy, spring-sky blue...
...North Carolina's late Democratic Representative Robert ("Muley") Doughton, whose term ended in 1953 when Doughton was 89 years 56½ days. Then, thanking lots of walking and other exercise for his longevity, Eldest Statesman Green, a bachelor who drinks an occasional cocktail and smokes not even cornsilk, rushed to West Germany and a banquet honoring him as the oldest living ex-student of the University of Bonn...
...have held a larger audience than Horatie Alger. Little boys have sat out behind the barn blowing large clouds of cornsilk smoke heavenwards as they perused the pages of "Bound to Rise" with the condescension of a savant. Mothers have crawled beneath the had to salvage a soiled and be-thumbed "Erie, or Little by Little." Fathers have confiscated whole libraries of Algerians from erring sons and have sat up half the night before a fire set for the avowed purpose of incinerating the fame of the great author. It was a simple creed he preached, this Harvard man. Live...
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