Word: mane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cigars & Arias. John gives full credit for his conversion to a lively, young (31) sculptress named Fiore de Henriquez who first arrived from Italy three years ago. A swarthy, husky type with hot brown eyes and a mane of jet-black hair, she lives in a littered London flat, dresses like a dock-walloper and, while she works, sings arias from her favorite operas between puffs on a cigar. For an old Bohemian like Augustus John, Fiore was just what the doctor ordered...
...Word. On the TV screen, Taft at first seemed to take these charges calmly. But Sokolsky's temper had a lower ignition point. Tossing his mane, he shouted indignantly: "I resent very much anyone giving the impression that Senator Taft is a liar, and if I were Senator Taft I would rise now and leave this program . . . Only scoundrels lie. And the word 'lie' is a bad word, and when a man impugns the truth of another man, he places himself outside good manners, and I resent...
...twice a grandee of Spain," the 35-year-old Duchess says, tossing her luxuriant, red-gold (dyed) mane. "It makes absolutely no difference to me what Franco or his men call me. Why should one worry when there is no court in Spain at which a grandee can exercise his right of keeping his hat on in the king's presence...
Mississippi's waspish John Rankin waggled his white mane with satisfaction. Said he to the House of Representatives last week: "This regulation is ... the first thing that has brought justice in freight rates to the people of the South and West in the last 50 years." Editorialized the Atlanta Journal: "It has been a long and valiant fight [which] has resulted in a triumph for justice and fair play...
...passes "like a sail across/ A blind man's eye"; an old house "looks as though the walls had cried themselves/ To sleep"; a happy character "sits and purrs/ As though the morning were a saucer of milk"; the fields of grain move "like a lion's mane"; flowers gather "like pilgrims in the aisles of the sun"; the morning leaves "the sunlight on my step like any normal/ Tradesman." Fry's most persistent and most moving theme is the perpetual dialogue between despair and hope, the death wish and the life urge. In The Lady...