Word: dabbing
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...summer of 1465, "you are a handsome, proud, gallant, honorable and slightly obsolete figure." At these words Robert Taylor recoils. It is startling enough for a 44-year-old matinee idol to hear himself described like an overage destroyer; but to be addressed in literate and amusing English smack-dab in the middle of a Hollywood thud-and-blunder opus is a shock almost as sharp as seeing Sir Walter Scott in the old Stut 'n' Tup on Beverly Boulevard...
...Detroit nightclub one night last week, the floor show was led by Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams and Bridgeport Brass Co.'s President Herman W. Steinkraus. Wearing white smocks, the two bore down on a 12-ft.-by-8-ft. white fiberboard elephant, proceeded to dab the elephant with pink paint. Then, some 550 Bridgeport Brass employees filed past, finished painting the elephant from trunk to tail...
...Cadillac, but they stayed on just long enough to do a fast business, and moved on before we got to them." Busiest of the boom enterprises is a broker's office (a branch of a Toronto firm), where residents have begun dab bling with growing enthusiasm in the stock market. One staff geologist at Pronto has made $100,000 tax-free in two months investing in uranium stock, and the town is full of taxi drivers, store clerks, and even high-school students who have parlayed modest stakes into four-and five-figure bankrolls. One of the brokerage offices...
...been a model manservant. As an apple-cheeked footman, he was up at dawn each day to oil the lamps and trim the wicks. No faithful servitor in the vicinity could pad about with such noiseless efficiency or efface himself with such dignity as Patience, and he was a dab at removing the pips from his master's grapes before setting them on table...
...Mark Rothko, was among the first to rebel against it. While the fad was still at its height, he walked Manhattan's 57th Street with his canvases under his arm, vainly trying to interest the dealers in his own new approach to painting. But when the slap and dab of abstract-expressionism began to become a bore, the time was ripe for Individualist Hultberg...