Word: loftiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Significantly, regular book publishers are eying the growing art-book market, and many have plunged in. Simon & Schuster has on its list John Canaday's clear, instructive Mainstreams of Modern Art ($12.50). Viking produced the year's loftiest cheesecake with Masterpieces...
MacLeish's writing runs the gamut from the loftiest poetic imagery to colloquial vulgarisms. And he makes use of an effective gimmick for underscoring certain crucial lines by employing a celestial prompter over a loudspeaker, whose words are then delivered by the actor on stage; it brings to mind the old French dictum, "Un beau vers on peut entendre deux fois...
With his social background, however, Roosevelt gained acceptance, at least in the clubbie set. He climbed the social terraces at Harvard--the Dickey, the Hasty Pudding, and that loftiest of social honors, the Porcellian. But he must have been a somewhat unorthodox club member. One day he took Alice Lee to lunch at the "Porc," never before polluted by the presence of a woman. "The luncheon with Alice," Pringle notes, "caused manly indignation in the breasts of fellow members, and the true Porcellian man will deny even now that it ever could have happened...
...rising tide of inflation is lapping at movieland's loftiest crags, according to Gossipist Sheilah Graham, who cheerfully prattled: "Mickey Rooney will try marriage again with [fourth] wife Elaine. With the high cost of alimony, Hollywood males are finding it cheaper to reconcile...
...United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, arrives in Jamestown, Va. (after four days in Canada) to begin her first visit to the U.S. since her accession to the world's loftiest throne, the same personable troubleshooter will be there to shatter the sometimes forbidding ice of majesty with the impact of his own easy personality. He is the Queen's husband. Prince Philip, and he will play a considerable part in the success (or failure) of a royal diplomatic mission...