Word: laureled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flying Deuces (RKO). Laurel & Hardy in a not very funny remake of Laurel & Hardy. But the last laugh is a horselaugh: Hardy, reincarnated after an airplane crash in the form of a moustached horse that looks like him, being wept over by lonely Stan Laurel...
...well as "funny." There is an ice carnival, a burlesque of chivalry complete with pratt falls; there is an affecting and terrible sequence, in somewhat doubtful taste, about a unicorn. The book as a whole might be described as a shake-up of British rectory humor, Evelyn Waugh, Laurel & Hardy, John Erskine, and the Marquis de Sade, quite well enough blended to please the palate of Sword-in-the-Stone partisans, to assure its author definite standing among such cult men as A. P. Herbert, P. G. Wodehouse, Lewis Carroll...
...German victory, though it had to be won at times over odds of 6-to-1, was not only sweet but cheap in casualties, said the Führer (see p. 44). And now "German soldiers have once more firmly established the right to wear the laurel wreath of which they were meanly deprived...
...married a romantic Oregon girl-poet named Minnie Myrtle whom he divorced because "Lord Byron separated from his wife, and some of my friends think I am a second Lord Byron." From San Francisco editors Poet Miller got rejection slips until his famous junket to England. Armed with a laurel wreath for Byron's grave, the manuscript of Songs of the Sierras, a pair of cowhide boots and a sombrero, he was taken up by Pre-Raphaelites, became the rage of Mayfair in no time. He whooped as he entered drawing rooms, smoked two cigars at once, picked...
...closest rival. When he reached the finish line, a roar of applause greeted him. His time: 2 hr., 28 min., 51 4/5 sec.-more than 27 seconds faster than the alltime record set by Japan's Kitei Son in the 1936 Olympics. Crowned with the traditional laurel wreath and hailed as a super-runner, Marathoner Brown, a stone mason by trade, smiled feebly. Said he: "I would like to have a steady job instead...