Word: frothings
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...befalling a nutcracker, the favorite present of Clara Stahlbaum, triggers a dream. Toys come to life. A platoon of mice invades her parlor. The nutcracker turns into a prince who leads his young mistress on an imaginary journey to the Kingdom of Sweets. The second act is usually a froth of dazzling leaps, spins and exuberant folk-flavored dances...
...Novelist Muriel Spark had talent to burn. Then, in the late 1960s, a suspicion arose that burning was exactly what she had done with it. Gone was the somber exuberance of such earlier triumphs as Memento Mori, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means. The froth turned sour and her amused awareness of human daffiness was drowned in simple venom. The Abbess of Crewe (1974), Spark's deft parody of Watergate set in an English convent, gave reason to hope that all was not lost. The Takeover proves that nothing has been lost...
...tired," his sister recalled, and three days later he had chest pains, a fever and difficulty in breathing. "He didn't want to go to the hospital," said Mrs. Travis. "We had to fight him all the way." That very night, with his lungs filling with a bloody froth, Brennan died of an apparent heart attack...
...mile trek with a sure stride and stony-faced impenetrability that makes his profession the lodestar of steadfast control and lockjawed authority in college basketball, while the festooned NBC logos, pied banners, and roar of "Go, Hoyas go" from the Georgetown faithful symbolize all that is hoopla and froth in the big time...
...bailiwick, however, the maid seems to have sized up the situation perfectly. Between the lines of froth about clothes, jewels, travel, parties and grand houses, she implicitly lays down the common law: servants, not masters, are frequently the keepers of traditions, institutions and morals. They are rewarded by living high off the leavings of power and opulence...