Word: dictu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nabokov finally takes hold and orders, mirabile dictu, a Swiss red. Vera accepts, graceful in this as in everything. With finely drawn, strong features, alabaster skin, brilliant white hair, exquisite hands, she is a natural beauty. Their dinner conversation thrives on little disagreements, contrapuntal, and often not really resolved. In one exchange, Vera begins by explaining the mating ritual of the crested grebe, a grubby little bird which frequents the lake. They never touch, she says, waggling a delicate finger, but wiggle one foot back and forth. "No, no, no, no, no," says Vladimir, who has let this...
novice nun who discovers that her wing-shaped cornet, mirabile dictu, is a perfect airfoil. The show will be cut to half an hour once Sister Bertrille gets airborne...
...wish I could be so enthusiastic about the rest of the concert. Mozart's 29th Symphoney suffered from out-of-tune high notes by the violins. The horns nearly saved the day with, mirabile dictu, a splendid performance--until the very end, when an ascending passage brought on the inevitable...
...academic year was calm, the athletic year was not. In their senior year the class of 1938 at last beat Princeton, 34-6, and--mirabile dictu-Dock Harlow's machine rallied past Yale in the snow and the rain, 13-6, When Frank Foley scored the tie-breaking touchdown...
...runs by .161 batters, and home run sluggers who can't run or bend over, they have flirted with the idea of entering the first division. Under new manager Johnny Pesky, many wonderful changes have been made. For example, the Sox now run onto the filed. In fact, mirabile dictu, most of this New Breed even run out infield grounders. The effect of this unaccustomed strain is, as yet, undetermined. But, many old, seasoned observers fear that it may prove disastrous...