Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hero of The Old Man occupied one corner of a composition that was too loose and bare to be properly described as a composition at all. There was nothing sunny about the level light that pointed up a shuttered window above the old man's head, and the sky beyond had in it more paint than air. Yet the somber, dilapidated house front dwarfing the children on the sidewalk, the green smudge of a treetop peering over the adjoining wall, the sick and sagging figure of the old man himself, and even the murky, unreal light and haphazard composition...
Connoisseur Gaits. In the ring, the ringmaster called for a walk and Wing slowed down, though still strutting. Teater gave him a thank-you tap on the head. At the call for the "slow gait," Teater gave a twist on the snaffle rein and Wing moved into a gliding, four-beat amble...
...analytical work was not feasible," and presented its final opinion "with full recognition of its own fallibility." The portrait looked suspiciously inferior to the Van Goghs on exhibition at the Met, the jury agreed. It was "strident in color, weak in drawing and uncertain in the modeling of the head...
Died. Frederick Porter ("the Weasel") Wensley, 84, beak-nosed master sleuth, onetime head of Scotland Yard's famed C.I.D. (Criminal Investigation Department), who solved many of Britain's most famous crimes during his long (1887-1929) service; in London. No theorizing Hercule Poirot, Wensley served a rough & tumble apprenticeship in London's thug-infested East End during the Jack the Ripper era, wrote about it all in Forty Years of Scotland Yard...
...doors. They have nightclubs, banquet halls and shopping centers. You can read a book in the library and use the safe deposit vault as a bank. If you get sick, there's a hospital, with a doctor and a nurse. You can park your car, eat your head off and sleep till noon. Home was never like that...