Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Edward Henry Scudamore Stanhope, 63, twelfth Earl of Chesterfield, who in 1935 succeeded to the title bestowed in 1628 by Charles I; of cardiac asthma; in London. The family name "Chesterfield" survives in the English language, associated with an overcoat, a sofa and an elegant manner. Best known of...
Sudden Fear (Joseph Kaufman; RKO Radio) finds Joan Crawford in something of a predicament. Her actor-husband (Jack Palance) is trying to murder her by running her down with his convertible on the hilly streets of San Francisco. This homicidal urge, it seems, dates back to the time when Joan...
Bitter & Bittre. But Coghill's version also emphasizes the fact that Chaucer's multilingual voice was often rough, sharp and cynical. And it is usually when trying to emulate this toughness that Coghill's witty, elegant rendering is inadequate. Try as he may, he cannot quite evoke...
That once elegant and utile implement, the toothpick, passes from the scene in an ever-widening social circle. The massive, rounded hardwood utensil with which modern hostesses and bartenders spear canapes and Martini olives was never intended to explore dental apertures, although it might serve for a murder weapon in...
In their gutter-eye view of America, U.S.A. Confidential, the New York Daily Mirror's Editor Jack Lait and Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer threw enough mud to bring six libel suits against them (TIME, May 19). Biggest of the six was by Dallas' elegant Neiman-Marcus store. It...