Word: curtsey
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...have few lines which tempt the reader to stop and read them over again aloud. His persistent awkwardness in phrasing is well illustrated by the following passage from Song of a Traveller: Spring, which in Philadelphia is wild./Is not in Boston yet. Like a stubborn child/Who will not curtsey to the lady she thinks a witch,/Spring cowers in Boston's doorway to stamp and bitch...
...Ballet Russe, in town for its one week curtsey to the cultural center of the world, opened Monday with three old standbys and an extra Pas de Deux thrown in for kicks. It was a nice gesture, but it didn't make up for the loss of ballerinas of Danilova's calibre...
...lobby, Molotov strode ahead of his guards and encountered a San Francisco girl. Said she: "Welcome to our city." Molotov understood her manner, if not her words. He bobbed his quick, characteristic little curtsey, smiled with his eyes, and tossed something in Russian over his shoulder. Someone told the girl that he had said: "You are very nice...
Like an elephant trying to curtsey, the . world's biggest school system last week coyly re-enacted its birth. New York City's Board of Education was 100 years old. To celebrate, it dressed its little girls in pinafores and pantalettes, its little boys in jackets and Buster Brown collars. They read McGuffey readers, wrote on slates, drank water from dippers. Bearded teachers brandished canes at boys in dunce caps. A gentleman impersonating an old-time school trustee drove up to P.S. 15, The Bronx, in a gig. The city's schoolchildren were so bored they didn...
Also of Erskine, Miss Marjorie Robb makes her second curtsey to the college community, following up a recent radio success. Appearing in all three feminine parts of Side Street," a Gidding playlet on the Crimson Network, Marjorie won immediate commendation. The program had barely ended when the studio phone rang, and an eager but bashful undergraduate vowed his undying affection for her. Miss Robb promises the anonymous swain an opening-night date, if he can successfully establish his identity