Word: jove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...muddled. Yes, by Jove...
When The Sphinx was finished, Sir Gerald showed it to Sir William Llewellyn, then Royal Academy president, heard him say, "By Jove, my dear chap, it's wonderful. You really must send it in." Comments Sir Gerald wryly: "Well, I sent it in, but it jolly soon came back." Reason was the academy's unwritten law prohibiting any work that might cause offense or annoyance to the viewer's religious or moral scruples. The academy's particular concern was that Queen Mary, peering at The Sphinx strait-lacedly, might deem it beyond the pale of propriety...
Fretwell accepted, then started to worry. What would be controversial, yet might appeal to the working-class parish? Fretwell decided against tricky techniques and went to work. He had less than five months to do the paintings, but he finished them in time. "By Jove!" Lane gasped when he saw them. "These are controversial all right." Fretwell had portrayed the Holy Family in modern dress...
...reason for this doubt was the action of two Elis who rose after the benediction, clapped each other on the back and yelled, "By Jove, we're committed." Although criticized by the Daily News as against Yale's "highest values: free and rational thought," Graham was not without defenders. One sophomore accused Graham's detractors of being "atheists," who to him were all "5 ft., 6 in., popeyed, pimply, squeaky and scrawny...
Major Thompson is a retired, red-faced British officer who wears a bowler hat and barks "By Jove!" His name is, of course, Marmaduke, but Humorist Daninos, not wishing to make his countrymen die laughing, has not named the major's son Fauntleroy. The major's first wife, Ursula, was a British horsewoman with a face like a mare, feet like briefcases and that aversion to sex which most Britons have had since they became neighbors of the French. "Do as I did," Ursula's mother advises, "just close your eyes and think of England!" After Ursula...