Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mood somewhat short of ecstasy, Cinemactress Hedy Lamarr, 44, and five times wed, departed (legal separation) from her latest, Houston Oilman W. Howard Lee, fiftyish. For keeping her distance, Hedy will get $100,000 a year, an additional $105,000 in a lump sum. "I feel sure Howard and I will never divorce," she sighed. "Basically, we are very fond of each other...
...gayest party girl of them all, Elsa Maxwell, 75, confided to Paris reporters something she has long brayed to everyone in earshot at her favored Manhattan watering holes: her credo for frivolous success. Chunks from the eight-lump manifesto, in its current version: "I have developed the fine art of choosing my enemies. Everyone loves truth but nobody says it except me. I firmly believe the world is my oyster. I stay away from geniuses; the men I see most often are Orson Welles, Cole Porter and Aly Khan...
Night, the repository of eternal veities, that time when inspiration sits like a lump between your ears and genius is a genie from a Chianti bottle. Night for Harold is a series of brown-ringed coffee cups and so many cobble-stones; a collection of footsteps, frowns, and scraps of paper; a time when janitors and hotel clerks are reading sex novels...
...goods denied others. By Russian standards, their salaries are princely; Nesmeyanov makes 30,000 tax-free rubles ($7,500) a month, besides thousands more for teaching, lecturing, appearing on TV or writing books. Even after an academician dies, his privileges continue. His widow may get a pension and a lump sum of 75,000 rubles, his grandchildren may get extra allowances while in school. A British visitor noted that the chief topic of conversation among Soviet scientists, aside from their work, is the servant problem...
...Hume, Locke, Voltaire and Francis Bacon, the remaining two volumes. The 2,659-page set contained a long description of Noah's ark and a terse write-off of "Woman": "The female of man. See HOMO." It advised that tobacco could desiccate the brain to "a little black lump consisting of mere membranes." It was salted with 160 excellent engravings by Bell, including a handsome map of North America...