Word: gether
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard & Half-Hard. The last two sim nons to reach the U.S. are published to gether in a single volume called Destinations. One of them, The Burial of Monsieur Bouvet, is a mixture of detection, mood and Paris atmosphere that gets under way when an elderly gentleman drops dead at a Paris bookstall. Since the author is more interested in the frayed lives and barely concealed despairs of his characters than in the mystery, he calls it a "half-hard," i.e., half-serious novel...
...Gary oddly moved and vaguely irritated. In Volume I, Prisoner of Grace, Heroine Nina Latter told her story - that of a woman who obviously needed two husbands, behaved outrageously with both, but was so genuinely lovable that neither could live without her, and all three wound up living to gether. In Volume II, Except the Lord, her first husband, Liberal Politician Ches ter Nimmo, had his say and explained how a willful, lusty moralist used his wife, his brains and his political savvy to rise from a small-town spellbinder to the peerage and a Cabinet post. In Not Honour...
...week he was much improved, but his back was still bothering him. When he sat, he lined his chair with big flat picture books and a backboard. "I have to take so many pills," he said, "they have to fight among themselves if I take them too close to gether." His daily quota of alcohol, though still substantial enough to keep him in good standing among the alltime public enemies of the W.C.T.U., had fallen far below the old records. Gone were the uninhibited, wine-purpled, 100-proof, side-of-the-mouth bottle-swigging days of the swashbuckling young Ernest...
...woman painter America has produced. A rich, aristocratic Pennsylvanian, she spent almost all her adult life laboring at her profession in Paris. Though she hobnobbed with the impressionists, the tall spinster never painted a landscape. People offered more of a challenge, she felt. Cassatt was an austere sort alto gether; she once turned John Singer Sargent from her door because he had done such a "dreadful portrait" of her brother Alex...
...Western observers leaped to the conclusion that the criticism hinted at trouble for Politburocrat Lavrenty Beria, longtime boss of the secret police system; but this is premature. On the very night the "plot" was disclosed, Stalin appeared at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. With him, in we-hang-to-gether fashion, were Malenkov, Molotov, Voroshilov, Khrushchev-and Beria...