Word: lying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...classic definition: "An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." (For another definition of a diplomat, see MILESTONES...
...Jeritza hit the Metropolitan Opera like a tidal wave. She sang the Vissi d'arte aria from Tosca lying flat on her face, the Seguidilla from Carmen flat on her back. In The Girl of the Golden West she rode a bronco on stage, and as Thai's she once celebrated her conversion to Christianity with a record high-jump that landed her in the hospital. All this musical whoopla endeared Jeritza to her public, if not to her fellow artists. Snorted Soprano Lilli Lehmann: "If you're a real artist you don't have...
Novelist Hays, whose last novel, Lie Down in Darkness (TIME, Sept. 18, 1944), was a suspenseful psychological study, is more successful in showing where his characters stand in relation to the brotherhood of man than in furnishing them with real legs. His Indians and friars have simple souls, his slave-owners display appropriate symptoms of spiritual and physical decay: everyone is more symbolical than human. But the colorful setting and the well-organized, well-dramatized facts of history set The Takers of the City well above the average of current historical novels...
...next question is how to achieve the necessary state of relaxation . . . positions in bed, as all psychiatrists know, are related to character types, and most criminals lie on their stomachs. . . . The position of the hands and arms must not be neglected, and I recommend to those who have not tried it a loose embrace of the pillow, which may also be bitten and chewed from time to time...
...follow threads of reality through her blacked-out mind, but her memory was "swathed in wet gray chiffon that stuck to the . . . part she wanted most to examine." One, night, in a brief moment of sanity, she thought: "Here on [a] narrow cot, clothed in a numbered nightgown, [I lie] with women who [are] insane and [I am] one of them." After almost a year at Juniper Hill, Virginia was pronounced cured-but not before she and her fellow patients had been treated to shock therapy, hydrotherapy, psychoanalytical questionings, paraldehyde dosings and old-fashioned madhouse discipline...