Word: hied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the doctrinaire rules of Soviet social realism, a painter with a hankering for nudes had to hie himself to the nearest gym, coyly disguise his subject as a bather or a physical-culture enthusiast. Last week a young Soviet art student named Ilya Glazunov finally dared break the rule, showed a nude girl (modeled by his wife) lolling in bed while her lover gazes out of the window over the city of Leningrad. The result sent the whole Soviet art world into a tizzy and crowds swarming to the Moscow gallery to see his work. At the gallery Glazunov...
...overall effect of this production is a sheer joy. Should any one tell you otherwise, just reply, "Pishery-pashery! Go snick up, you gibble-gabbling trullibubs!" and hie to Wellesley on a Schulmacher's holiday for this triple-Dekker treat...
Around Phoenix, 55-year-old Bill Nelson described himself as a retired business man, indicating that hie had been a cattle broker. Every morning he would drive downtown in his 1953 Ford pickup truck to look over the stock-market quotations. One morning last week he got into his truck as usual, waved goodbye to his wife, and attempted to start the engine. There was a thunderous explosion, and Bill's broken body fell near the driveway, 15 feet from the pile of junk that had been a truck...
...soth reunion last week, Yale '05 proved that its old-fashioned classical education has a way of staying put. "Post quinquaginta annos amicitiae mutuae" it wired its counterparts at Harvard, "alumni Universitatis Yalensis hie in Novo Portu congregati classi simili Harvardensi salu-tem plurimam dicimus." As any Harvard-man would know, this was another way of saying: "After 50 years of mutual friendship, we alumni of Yale University assembled here in New Haven express affectionate greetings to the corresponding class of Harvard...
...solution is just as simple. Got some more. How? Well, recent magazine articles have brought to the attention of East Coast sports land a little-known, but very incrative enterprise which has been flourishing in Florida for many years. The name of the game is Jai-Alai (pronounced "Hie-lie"), the annual take is about one and one-half million dollars...