Word: lende
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...Richard III or an Edmund. (Mr. Griffin, sad to say, has been beset by two of the continuing Terrors of all Shakespearean acting: the Noble Voice, which attempts to sound English and inspiring and most closely resembles muffled Gielgud, and the Emphatic Shimmy, apparently an attempt to lend emphasis to a speech by wriggling one's body wildly...
...interested, and young enough not to have been personally committed, has now moved into the field. Hugh Thomas, whose background is Cambridge, the British Foreign Office and Sandhurst, has, by his own account, consulted nearly a thousand books in five great libraries and in five languages to lend weight to his massive reappraisal of Spain. He is the first historian to write as neither a partisan nor an embittered memoirist. His book is likely to be for some time the definitive précis of the records and the last tabulation of disks from the military cemeteries. Thomas' material...
...mask of anonymity which an organization's members wear serves the double purpose of protecting them from popular prejudice and of enabling them to cover over a foreign-directed conspiracy, infiltrate into other groups and enlist the support of persons who would not, if the truth were revealed, lend their support, it would be a distortion of the First Amendment to hold that it prohibits Congress from removing the mask...
...heard itself say for the eighth straight year, "is a summer festival." As the humidity mounted on the sticky streets, the egregious slogan was resurreced at an air-conditioned Waldorf-Astoria luncheon, and a new queen was anointed by the mayor. Unable to locate a sinuous native girl to lend a straight face to the propaganda, the Visitors Bureau tapped radiant California-born Model Peggy Jacobsen, 22, summoned its hard-selling ex-president, Midtown Merchant Bernard Gimbel, to seal the deal with a kiss. Whatever his pitch may be, this was one time Gimbel would tell it to Macy...
...Spanish art dealer happened to bring up the subject of the apse again. Rorimer went to the site and decided that the apse was something that The Cloisters had to have. With the help of the U.S. embassy, he began negotiations. After ten years, the government agreed to "lend" the apse to The Cloisters if the Met in turn would buy six Spanish frescoes to "lend" to the Prado and undertake the restoration of another church in Fuentiduena. The Bishop of Segovia agreed to the transaction, after clearing it with the Vatican...