Word: limpingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their own way. The Commission asked for federal scholarships and fellowships, as well as generous grants to the states to enable colleges to roll back tuition charges. It appears, however, that elementary and secondary schools are going to be served first by the present Congress. Colleges will have to limp along, and the sizzling issues of aid to private schools and southern segregated education will doubtless be finessed at the present too. But if the Administration really wants to toss a lot of money into the states' school systems this year, it will probably have little trouble. David E. Lillenthal...
Salvador Dali, supersalesman of limp-watch surrealism, honored Madrid with a visit and modern art with an offer of leadership: "My name is Salvador because I am destined to save modern painting from laziness and chaos . . . The world is going through the middle ages, but a renaissance will follow." He would soon be ready to lead that renaissance: "The world's greatest painters were Velasquez and Raphael -every day I feel I am getting closer to them." There was no challenger. Picasso? "Picasso's works are pseudo-decorative and they all look like rugs...
...into this hand, so unmistakably the limp and clammy hand of an effeminate curate, that little boys were to put theirs trustingly .. . This was the pietistic poseur-the very spit of every disgusting little 'teacher's pet' . . . that we were to take as the earthly evidence of what The Everlasting God is like...
...Laurence Olivier, who throws everything he has into every role he plays, might have to slow down. He had to interrupt his New Zealand tour for a few days to have a knee cartilage fixed: he had been playing Richard III with such an emphatic stage limp that he had given himself a real...
...staring blankly at the rows of empty seats. After a giant yawn, just before the session's end, he got up and started out of the chamber. Members who saw him leaving thumped briefly on their desks. One member stood up and clapped. Old Mackenzie King waved a limp right hand, faded into the shadows behind the Speaker's throne...