Word: dressere
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Saturday morning Vag woke up late. As he pondered over whether or not he should buck the odds at Widener in the hope of getting a book, he noticed his two unsold tickets lying on the dresser. As he slow-motioned out of bed, it occurred to him drowsily that for every football game won there was a football game lost. As he combed his hair, he associated this concept with an essay he had read called "Compensation." Compensation or no compensation, he rebutted, dusting out his mailbox, Vag for one, has an insatiable desire for victory and a powerful...
...months now Mr. Wilter, catering manager of the South African Railways, has searched in vain for Queen Elizabeth's galoshes. The Queen's dresser was absolutely sure she had put them in the record compartment of the royal radio gramophone. On the royal tour of South Africa the gramophone stood in the Queen's lounge on the train...
...Queen, unknown to her dresser, ordered the gramophone removed because it took up too much space. Two days later rain threatened, and no galoshes were to be found. Wild with worry, the royal dresser approached Mr. Wilter. Mr. Wilter took steps. Radios hummed and telephone lines crackled across the veld. In time the royal family reached the end of their tour and returned to London...
...galoshes were ever found, but Mr. Wilter never ceased to hope. Recently he got a letter from the Queen's dresser in Buckingham Palace. "The galoshes," she wrote, "were sitting in the cupboard here in the Palace when I returned. I am sorry to have put you to all that trouble. Do forgive...
Magritte is 48, married, and has a pet Pomeranian, "Jacacki." He is a dapper dresser, paints on a time-clock daily schedule in a corner of his small, commonplace living room. Magritte considers Dali an excellent businessman ("he is rich") but has intense scorn for fellow Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux, who paints luscious nudes picking roses in classic landscapes, with now & then a streetcar lurking about in the background (TIME, Dec. 30). Painter Delvaux, Magritte thinks, "has exploited surrealism as he would have exploited pork-butchery...