Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...detachment he imparted to his monumental Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire he imparted equally to his own life, and to his own account of it. In his Memoirs he reduced the ardent youthful romance that his father frowned upon to an immaculate antithesis: "I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son"-and thereafter lived without love till the day he died. But the plump, pompous little man with the snuffbox and the button mouth had his work (the Decline and Fall took him 15 years), his noble friends, his admirers, his elegant, discreet amusements, his intimations...
...today is to win the war in Japan -to win it as quickly as possible.' " Unczarlike Czar. The man who drew this picture of the U.S. in transition was a man of long experience in the Government. He was an expert on taxes, a whiz at poker, a lover of sports, an unflustered worker who looks and acts less like a czar than most men with a fraction of his responsibilities...
...sleep-lover, Scott once dozed while driving, and crashed into a North Chicago bungalow. To remind himself that sleep can be dangerous, he had an artist do a painting of the wreck, hung it in his office. A worrier, he devised ways to check on his salesmen's selling talks. One way: he hid microphones behind pictures and under display radios so that he could listen in on the sales spiel in the privacy of his rooftop office. He pioneered in the building of super-duper radios, sold them to wealthy householders for as much as $15,000 each...
...lobby billboard advertised "brilliant men, beautiful jazz babies, champagne baths, midnight revels, petting parties in the purple dawn." Across the nation, marquees blazed with titles like Red Hot Romance, Give Her Anything, The Fourteenth Lover. Hollywood was being denounced on the floor of the U.S. Senate and censorship bills were being pressed in 36 state capitols...
Resigning his Madrid appointment, Sickles worked feverishly for his mistress and her son. Came the day when the young man was triumphantly crowned as Alfonso XII and Isabella, henceforth bound to more conventional behavior, sadly said goodbye to her lover. Sickles returned to New York and resumed his long-forgotten law practice...