Word: maze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wild life and religion stand out as about the only two comprehensible characteristics of Charles Waterton. Investigating the rest of him is like entering a maze that turns out to have been planned as a staggering hoax. Many (including Novelist Norman Douglas and Poet Edith Sitwell) have been lured down the winding trails that appear to lead to the Watertonian heart of the matter-only to find that a conglomeration of blind alleys is, itself, the mysterious center of the weird and wonderful meanderer. Biographer Richard (The Duke) Aldington, in the most complete work on Waterton to date, explores...
...wedding reception at a friend's home, servants carrying trays of champagne and caviar stepped gingerly through a maze of television cables and microphone wires. The bridal couple was photographed in the music room, in the living room, in the dining room cutting the cake. Where were they going on their honeymoon? "Shangri-La," said Barkley promptly. Wouldn't it be cold this time of year? "We'll warm it up after we get there." Photographers pleaded with him to kiss his bride. "No kisses," said Barkley. "I'll save that for later." Said Mrs. Barkley...
...Council's food committee has gotten itself snagged in a maze of minor details. It has set up house committees to uncover gripes. But everyone is used to hearing gripes about food, and the Administration feels that the current protests are nothing more than the usual. The Administration poses the questions, "Are we giving you the best possible food for your money and is this best good enough?" It answers yes to both and says that they have not yet been disproved...
Miss Carroll, frequently glancing out the window to display her million-dollar left profile told the open meeting that she had never liked the movies because she couldn't "live" her parts surrounded by a maze of movie-making aparatus. She thinks movies take the art out of acting, and she winces when she sees her own films...
...Opposite. To the layman, the wonder of modern T-football is that anybody but a mathematical quiz-kid can comprehend it, much less play it. At Notre Dame, even the basic quick-opener, known as "43" or "the bread & butter play" (see chart), has a maze of variations. When the Notre Dame quarterback has called the play number ("43" signifies that the "No. 4" back is to ram through the "No. 3" hole) and the team has swung out of the huddle, Leahy's tackles have about two seconds to size up the position of the defensive team...