Word: dragoon
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MANY Europeans and Asians mistrust the tendency to dragoon the whole world into two big-power blocs, each professing the noblest intentions and emitting, alternately, highfalutin slogans about democracy and Tarzanlike boasts of invincible might. We have seen this tendency in American and Soviet policy alike. We believe that it is wrong in itself, and likelier to lead to war than to peace...
Typically, Ros used this information not to change her talkative ways but to dragoon her two friends into helping her write a wordy, autobiographical play called The Winter's Tale. Its heroine's misadventures were strikingly like those that afflict Ros in Wonderful Town when she sings "One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose...
...dragoon guards, resplendent in red and yellow costumes, never let themselves show the strain of an opening night, nor the boredom of singing something that they had done hundreds of times before in rehearsal. Their antics onstage frequently left the pit dragoons laughing so much they were incapable of singing...
...introduced him to night life and sex. After he had thus contracted "a venereal complaint," he was married to Belgian King Leopold's daughter Stephanie, who described herself as "the rose of Brabant," but of whom her uncle remarked: "Poor Rudolph! His bride has the daintiness of a dragoon...
...dusty, comfortable, behind the scenes look; it is littered with circus costumes, antlers, decoy ducks, a trumpet, a mandolin, a pair of pink garters. Photographs of archaic Greek statues share the walls with theater posters, cutouts of full-blown society belles of the '90s, and shiny dragoon helmets...