Word: fountained
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Henri Matisse died last week, and the most brilliant fountain of light and color in modern art was sealed...
...hour later Gamal Abdel Nasser sat unhurt in the Alexandria lawyers' club sipping a lemonade, once more apparently his old, softspoken, self-possessed self. The stain on his tunic turned out to be not blood but a fountain pen leak. The gunman cowered in jail and under police persuasion admitted he was Mahmoud...
Public Defender. In Palermo. Italy. Yincenzo Fassano tore off all his clothes, hopped into a fountain and began beating on the marble statues of water nymphs, when police arrived explained: "I consider these statues immoral...
...volumes in 1947, after a seven-year stint with the British Foreign Office, and with the help of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Working on the history half days (he is also director of studies at the Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs), Toynbee wrote in longhand with a fountain pen, following a penciled outline he had made in 1927. He also drew on 15 notebooks he had filled with thoughts and quotations over the years, but he kept more of his universe of facts filed in his head. The manuscript that he finally delivered to his publishers in five...
...about major accomplishments (his dis coveries in physics), vain about minor ones (his physical endurance in mountain climbing). His wife plainly worships him, but laughs at him just enough to keep him human. She tells how one of his crucial experiments on slow neutrons was carried on in a fountain among unsuspecting gold fish. She giggles gently at his troubles with unruly shirtfronts. She pokes friendly fun at his brilliant friends (who called Fermi "The Pope") and tells how they once got so excited with their scientific talk that her maid thought they were all drunk...