Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suave Count Hervé de Grandsailles, who gave a brilliant dinner party where "congested epiderms . . . empurpled the candelabra," and the guests' faces were "caught in the ferocious meshes of anamorphosis." With "faint but delightful anguish" the Count detected in the "immaculate turgescence" of his cream cheese "the animal femininity of the she-goat...
...talk was in Serbo-Croatian. Tito speaks calmly and deliberately, with a faint trace of a Slovenian accent, and lets himself be interrupted at will. He speaks perfect German and Russian as well as some French. He reads English fluently and understands the talk pretty well, but is too shy to speak English for fear of mistakes...
Still another is Maugham himself, who appears in the book without self-consciousness, emitting characteristic worldly wisecracks, and this time without even a faint disguise. Samples from his conversations with the debutante Isabel...
...faint light of the moon the Americans watched the Japanese creep toward them from the edge of the airstrip. Sometimes Japs crawled to the very edge of the cavalrymen's foxholes before they were killed. One major told me he was going to sleep in his hammock that night and suggested that I do the same thing. During the night, however, troops near by heard a commotion and the major called out: 'Don't shoot, boys, it's Major - !' Nothing more was heard. The next morning they found the major dead, his head nearly severed...
...pseudo-folksy ex-Governor of Georgia made the papers by rising before the Lions Club of little Eastman, Ga. (pop. 3,311) and plugging the election of General Douglas MacArthur to the Presidency-as a Democrat. Then the No. 1 Has-Been of Georgia politics subsided again with a faint snapping of galluses, having once more done nobody a great deal of good...