Word: goldfishing
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...Philippa, a mulatto, is a pretty girl who reads Nietzsche, Flaubert and Dostoevsky. She likes to play chess against herself (to a skeptical reporter who asked how it could be done, she replied: "Maybe I'm a schizophrenic"). At six she gave recitals of her own compositions (The Goldfish, The Jolly Pig). At ten she had finished grammar school (her I.Q.: 185); at eleven she had written 100 piano compositions. Most of her friends, she says, are grownups. Her Negro novelist father, George Schuyler (Black-No-More, Slaves Today) and her white Texas-born mother used to credit...
...hoydens, generals into cannibalistic monsters, politicians into poisonous toadstools. The plump Duke of Norfolk was pictured lying on a table like an apple dumpling, Tom Paine was made to look as thin and mean as a sharp knife, the Royal Georges were shown with the complacently stupid expressions of goldfish, and Lord Nelson's beautiful mistress, Lady Hamilton, was portrayed as a coarse, fat, dowdy Dido (see cut), mourning among the souvenirs of her lover's Nile victory, when he sailed away to fight another round with Napoleon...
...Mitsukoshi depato (department store) which had boasted an American-style drugstore and a soda fountain featuring banana splits, now offered an odd assortment of unwanted goods-violin bows, pottery goldfish, bronze sparrows, unstrung tennis rackets and women's hats...
...moment, its favorite enemies (the chairborne Washington officials who "activate" plans and "implement directives") the Post asked itself last week: what is World War II doing to the language? Partially reassured by the fact that many of World War I's mess-hall words (chow, slum, goldfish, corned willie) disappeared under the influence of home cooking, the Post tried to hope for the best: "Probably G.I. will be with...
...nightclub star he is magnificent. At the straight comic setpieces - the dancing and delivery of the bangtwanging Bali Boogie; the impersonation of a Russian baritone in Laocoonic struggle between his hay fever and Otchi Tchorniya; a glistening little telephonic imitation of a pet shop in full cry, including goldfish; and the hilarious opera climax - Kaye is a great but still growing virtuoso...