Word: hippogriff
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...from Andrée's overblown (not to say overwritten) femininity, he pursues Solange Dandillot, a pretty and reassuringly placid young thing from the Parisian upper middle class. At first she is just right for him, pliant and emotionally phlegmatic. But soon a monster, which Costals calls the Hippogriff, begins to stir in her. In short, she becomes a woman who wants to get married. To that end, she willingly suffers every humiliation that Costals can devise for her, including the signing of a false letter admitting adultery in the marriage-to-be (giving Costals legal grounds for divorce...
Mythology is full of strange animals like the hippogriff, a beast that is half horse and half griffin.* Last week came word of a proposed merger which would create a real-life business hybrid-part cow and part bus. The companies concerned, whose directors have already approved a stock swap, are ACF-Brill Motors Co., maker of buses and trackless trolleys, and Foremost Dairies, Inc., seller of milk, ice cream and other dairy products in the South and (through foreign subsidiaries) the Far East. For ACF-Brill, which just turned the profit corner last year, after three years of losses...
Died. Harry Willson Watrous, 82, meticulous painter, noted for highly finished 16th-Century saints, microscopic in detail, onetime (1933) president of the National Academy of Design; in Manhattan. A practical joker, he terrified the Lake George colony in 1904 by a hippogriff-a cedar log fashioned into a sea serpent...
...anchored the horrific hippogriff close to the path which Col. Mann's boat would have to take. . . . [When the boat passed near by] I released the monster. It came up nobly. . . . Mr. Davies [Acton Davies, onetime dramatic critic of the New York Sun] who had a rather high pitched voice, uttered a scream that must have been heard as far as Burlington, Vt. Mrs. Bates [mother of Actress Blanche Bates], a very intrepid lady of Milesian extraction, stood on the seat in the boat and beat the water with her parasol. . . . Colonel Mann shouted, 'Good God, what...
Thereafter Mr. Watrous showed his hippogriff elsewhere in Lake George. "Within a few days, you couldn't see a Negro [servant] within a mile of the lake shore." He ceased exhibiting it when, one day, he "released the monster just as a pair of newlyweds came along in a canoe. With one glance at the vision and utterly ignoring his bride, the young man leaped into the lake, struck out for shore. . . . When he sought to make up . . . she refused to speak...