Word: fawning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alberta and tending a bookstore, Harold found himself, in 1921, by founding Broom. Names famed and forgotten spill from Author Loeb's pages like unstuck pictures from a family album. There was Ezra Pound, "dressed like one of Trilby's companions" in "black velvet jacket and fawn-colored pants"; James Joyce, dour and uncommunicative on everything but French provincial cooking (he loved it); and Tristan Tzara, the papa of Dada, leading his esthetic Bolsheviks with a wave of his monocle...
...Liars. As he finally started home to Nyasaland (a poor back country inhabited by 5,730 whites and 3,000,000 blacks), Dr. Banda held another press conference, which ended, in typical style, with his yelling at reporters: "I don't fawn on you. I think you are all a pack of liars." Then he rode on the roof of a car to the airport, as crowds scrambled to kiss his hand. At home another singing, dancing mob was waiting to greet him. Adopting a Napoleonic stance, Banda declared: "In Nyasaland, we mean to be masters, and if that...
...door guard, feels that the Oriental chorus girls are politer and less brassy than the usual types; the director and the choreographer feel that the whole cast is more disciplined and quicker to learn. Says Oscar Hammerstein: "It's a strange flavor they have. They don't fawn, they don't scrape, they listen carefully. I don't think they're any more intelligent than other people, but I think the intelligence is less obscured by neuroticism." Translates Dick Rodgers: "We have no nuts...
...locker rooms and powder rooms with Queen Anne-style dressing tables? What was the green and beige drawing room, called the Celestial room, used for, and why should a church be furnished like a luxury hotel, with grey wall-to-wall carpeting, concealed lighting, air conditioning, and armchairs in fawn and black? Whispered one woman to her husband: "I'd like to come here for a holiday...
With his smartly clipped beard, fawn-colored trousers and "killing cravat," Littlefield was a kind of one-man giveaway show. As one admirer put it: "With money he was as free as water, and when he had no money was just as free with checks." All through the late 1860s, he had the money, shelled out as much as $241,000 at a session to get the legislation he and his associates wanted. Eventually, the Swepson-Littlefield interests floated their own bonds for railroad lines they never built. They snapped up land at distress sales, bought state-owned cotton...