Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a Tokyo publisher brought out the result, a richly corned-up novel called Tokyo Romance. It had a U.S. correspondent for a hero, a Japanese movie queen for a heroine, a faint flavor of Madame Butterfly, a happy ending. Overnight, it became a bestseller: booksellers gobbled the first printing (100,000 copies), and yelled for more...
Wally Windsor was never a queen, but she managed a faint Marie Antoinettish echo on her return (temporary) to Britain last week. Asked about her wardrobe by a reporter who had just seen three army trucks and two jeeps dump about two tons of baggage, the Duchess said: "We hardly brought anything. Things are fantastic in Paris now. No one will be able to buy clothes there any more if they keep putting the prices up." The conversation turned naturally from clothes to parties. Would the Duchess do much entertaining? "I am here," she said, "in a very unofficial capacity...
...though some had paid $25 a seat to find out. But some people were already buying seats for February. For, whether the play was good or bad, theatergoers knew that the return of Eugene O'Neill was a .major event in the theater. Then, as the lights went faint, the buzz of excitement dissolved into silence. In the dimness, like the opening of a vast mouth, the curtain rose...
...rescue party from the U.S. Army, led by Dr. Samuel P. Martin, onetime Arctic explorer, fought its way in rubber boats up the rocky, racing Southwest Gander River, tumbled repeatedly into the icy waters. They hacked their way through tangled forest to reach the wreck. A faint cheer went up from the survivors. Eighteen of the 44 were alive, all but four of them badly injured. Twenty-four had died in the crash (two died later). It was the worst accident in transatlantic flying history...
Many of the paintings looked as though they had faded in the sun; the colors were so faint that it required close examination to detect where a pink ended and a blue began. Another unusual feature of Gwen John's painting was the number of studies she made of her subjects from the rear. She sketched a good deal in church, using women at prayer for models...