Word: melt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Renoir wrote those words (in 1882) his deft blottings pleased his impressionist friends but not himself. Like Monet, Sisley and Pissarro, Renoir had learned to see nature as a dazzling cobweb of colored light, where the shapes of things melt and blend like mist. But at 40 the spare, scraggle-bearded painter grew suddenly sick of mistiness, went digging for solid forms. He became a student again, and spent the next two years in life classes, learning to draw...
...however excellent the production and performance, the essence of great dramatic poetry is verbal, and the bottom of this play's new success was that Andre Gide had kept the greatness of great words in a new language. Samples: ¶ O that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! (Chair trap massive, Oh! Si tu pouvais fondre, T'evaporer, te resoudre en rosee...
...other pen which will do so many amazing, extraordinary things . . . brand cattle, spotweld, etch letters in solid concrete, repel insects or strange men, cut cabs in two pieces, burn holes in any blanket, melt locks (throw away your keys), remove superfluous hair (no smelly, sticky wax or paste!), and call police cars on short wave (if the police don't call you first!). It may even write, for all we know! . . . And you have only nine more years to wait...
...only if the Silver Bloc is willing. For the last six months the Bloc has not been willing because Congress was not willing to boost the price of silver. Result: silver has been so scarce that the PhotoEngravers Board of Trade of New York went so far as to melt silver dollars to get silver for industrial uses (photographic plates, solder...
...lake. He dropped a fly right before its nose; there was a streak of speed; McDermand's line broke, and the big one got away. He is anxious to try again, but willing to have competition. Directions: get there no earlier than August 1, when the snows melt, no later than mid-September, when winter closes...