Word: ernest
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...Conqueror ... She resolved early to make men her career, and in 40 years reached the top--or almost. No man she careered is known to have ever said a word not in her praise. Apart from her first husband Commander Earl Winfield Spencer, U.S.N., and her second (present) husband Ernest Aldrich Simpson, a London shipbroker, probably her best friend, next to the Duke of Windsor, remains the Argentine Ambassador in Washington, Felipe Espil ... "My, my!" sighed Ambassador Espil to swank U.S. friends last summer, "who would ever have dreamed that our little Wallis would ever be where...
Dali's most inspired decision was to reach back to late 19th century realism, to paint in a hyperdetailed style that could be more dreamlike than any of the fright-mask distortions of Picasso. Knowing very well how it would be received by militant modernists, he adopted Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier, the last word in retrograde Academicism, as the model for his enameled surfaces and high-definition images. The final twist was that so many of Dali's images, all those flaccid watches and fluid shapes, remained utterly ambiguous. He cast the clearest light possible on unnameable things...
...Monologue gag: "Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman were divorced, on grounds of irreconcilable faces...
...Panama City--born P&G vet doesn't spend too much time in the Caribbean--every month she spends a week or so in Hispanic hotbeds like Los Angeles, Dallas and New York City, managing retail relationships, meeting with customers. "She walks the stores, walks in the community," says Ernest Bromley, head of ad agency Bromley Communications, based in San Antonio, Texas. "She's not learning this stuff out of a book...
Maine was paced by guard Ernest Turner, a transfer from UNLV, who led all scorers with a career-high 22 points on 6-of-16 shooting, while point guard Chris Markwood added 11 points and six assists. The Crimson was done in by the quickness and strength of the starting Maine backcourt, as Turner, Reed and Markwood poured in 47 points and harassed Harvard into 18 turnovers, a continuing problem for the Crimson...