Word: hangdog
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Understudy on second violin: Buried deep within the strings, he feels forgotten. His expression is hangdog, his disposition catty. He lives only for the day when, in some miraculous burst of virtuosity, he will dethrone the hated Prima Donna. Meanwhile, to compensate, he composes sonatas on the side...
...ancestor called the Culper Ring. America's first espionage agents-a whaler, a tavern keeper, a Quaker merchant, Schoolmaster Nathan Hale-were very ingenuous spies. The members referred to each other by numbers, wrote their messages to General Washington in disappearing ink called Sympathetic Stain, and were totally hangdog about their calling. "I've lived four years of my life in fear," one of them is supposed to have said, "and I'll live the rest of it in shame." Author Corey Ford, who is best known as a humorist (The Horse of Another Color, Never...
...forgotten, out-of-print books by genuine travelers. He had never been anywhere farther flung than a pension on the French Riviera. His name was sometimes Robinson, but as a last resort, Pimley. Then it transpires that even his death was phony. He is very much alive, a slightly hangdog young minor spiv and con man who has happily dropped the burdens of authorship in favor of marriage to a sprightly American divorcee with silver hair and a white and gold yacht. Powell has a truly English wariness toward women, whom he seems to regard, at best, as dangerous domestic...
...Aldwych Theater for a mock hanging scene in Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Griffith slipped, felt the noose tighten round his neck, and blacked out gurgling. First came the smelling salts, then the brandy. Ten minutes later the beetle-browed Welshman was back-and with a hangdog look, remounted the box to go on with the show. "I had forebodings about the scene ever since we started rehearsals." said he. "That box was a bit rickety...
Rome-and the rest of the world-burned with prurient curiosity. Last week, while unconcernedly directing her lawyer to terminate the services of hangdog Fourth Husband Eddie Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor, 30, tirelessly sought to turn a more prideful head. Liz's latest quarry, the Mark Antony to her Cleopatra. Richard Burton, seemed cheerfully prepared to indulge her exhibitionistic binges of togetherness on the Via Veneto and to relish his odd-hour neighborly access to her villa. But he was careful to keep the home fires burning with a weekend rendezvous in Paris with Wife Sybil. As the tasteless, tedious...