Word: garnet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last four leap years the Winnipeg Tribune had listed Garnet Coulter among the city's most eligible bachelors. He looked like a fixture. A man who enjoyed duck hunting and poker sessions with the boys, he was thought to be an impregnable singleton. Besides, Garnet Coulter, mayor since 1942, had a big city...
Last July, when Garnet Coulter, 65, played host to the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities, he gallantly and persistently squired the Federation's Executive Director Jessica Allan, 43, around town (TiME, July 21). Winnipeggers put it down to official business. But when the pert Montreal divorcee stayed on for a few days, Winnipeggers began to swap nods and becks and wreathed smiles...
...they fell. Some had been officers, some privates; all wore faded blue-grey uniforms and tarnished brass buttons with the Polish eagle still recognizable. Dr. Prozorovsky wore a white smock, an orange apron and red rubber gloves. Kathy had on a plaid skirt, an orange pullover sweater and garnet nail polish...
Death he dismissed as vigorously as sex. But he had a horror of earth burial, bought shares in crematoria, was thrilled by the artistic effect of their "twirling ribbons of soaring, garnet-colored flames." After his mother's cremation he "found [her] calcined remains . . . strewn on a stone table at which two men . . . looking exactly like cooks, were busily picking out and separating the scraps. ..." "Coal was very scarce," he said when his sister died, "and Lucy burnt with a steady white light...
Nancy Duncan turns in another of her excellent performances as Mrs. Garnet, the eccentric landlady who is never quite sure when her weird tenants are acting and when they're being themselves. For that matter, no one else is too sure about it either, which probably accounts for the good time the actors seem to be having playing their parts...