Word: limpingly
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...some 185 pieces shown, many would have looked well on a moonlit night behind a fishpond, half covered with ivy. None bore the Whitney Museum's excellent lighting with enough distinction to turn a critic's head. The medal-winner: a reddish marble mother toting a limp child whose build resembled that of a miniature track champion. The sculptor: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, lady bountiful to the Whitney Museum and the National Society of Sculptors...
...finds itself in the middle of the next day having discovered the clue which plunges them into the denouement and gives promise of a happy ending. From now on the suspense slackens; you'll leave the theatre with haunting memories of Joan Fontaine and the spectacular photography, rather than limp from the excitement of a mystery story...
...mission-oak library tables were without a limp leather volume from Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft Shops in East Aurora, N. Y., which also flooded the land with such objets d'art as hammered copper book ends, goatskin table covers, leather pillows, mattresses, mission furniture, ferneries. As inventor of signed ads for Big Business, Fra Elbertus reached most millions of all. Sometimes he was called a combination of a dozen geniuses including Benjamin Franklin, Victor Hugo, Emerson and William Morris; other times, a combination of P. T. Barnum, Robert G. Ingersoll, Henry Ward Beecher...
...Journeys (one part fact, three parts fancy). Biblical inspiration coined such popular aphorisms as "Blessed is the man who does not bellyache." Emulating William Morris' idealistic experiment in fine books and hand craftsmanship, Hubbard founded the Roycroft Shops. His brand of Guild Socialism consisted of turning out rococo limp-leather-bound reprints selling from $2 to $250 ("not how cheap, but how good"), together with his glorified soap premiums in handicraft...
...harassment affects the mass of Britain's shipping about as much as a woodpecker tapping on a bank vault. Because of the small bombs used and the difficulty of sighting for enough lethal hits, most of the ships claimed as "sunk" by Nazi pilots are only damaged. They limp into port with their wounded groaning under sea-drenched blankets. Of eight ships claimed by Nazis in one day last week, the British admitted the actual loss of only two, one of them shattered by a torpedo launched from...