Word: gibraltarism
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...time for a sketch?"Grand Hotel" by Gladys Glad's smart husband Mark Hellinger, a fairly disorderly sequence with Harry Richman as Baron Al Capone of Chicago, sputteringly Semitic Jack Pearl as Cecil B. Goldwarner of Hollywood, Milton LeRoy as Alphonso Smith, late King of Gibraltar, and deep curved Helen Morgan as Polly Adlervitch, the Russian danseuse who visits all their rooms in a business-like way, leaving green carnations as receipts...
...appear in a prominent new English grammar book as a sample of beautiful writing: "The earth sighed as it turned on its course; the shadow of night crept gradually along the Mediterranean, and Asia was left in darkness. The great cliff that was one day to be called Gibraltar held for a long time a gleam of red and orange, while across from it the mountains of Atlas showed deep blue pockets in their shining sides...
...Yale News' assertion that the abolition of the classics requirement at New Haven will "rock the firm foundation of classical culture in secondary schools" is fine hyperbole. That foundation has long since lost any, Gibraltar-like quality. It is unlikely, on the other hand, that the classics are doomed to complete neglect at any early date...
...friendly attitude of the two English-speaking peoples exists because of a blood tie and thus rests upon a foundation as immovable as the rock of Gibraltar...
...that the Vice President was still physically good for many another year of service. South Carolina's Senator Blease hoped he would become President. Alabama's Senator Heflin called the Curtis career an "inspiration to youth" while Indiana's Senator Watson likened him to a "veritable Gibraltar...