Word: nymph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calypso was a legendary sea nymph who delayed Odysseus for seven years of his wanderings. Few Trinidadians have heard of her, believe that their Calypso is a native word meaning old French & Spanish music...
Brothers do three violent routines, sing a song, Pussy Pussy, that has hit possibilities. Zorina and the Metropolitan Opera ballet appear in two elaborate dances, one a banal number, the other (high point of the picture) a superlatively beautiful water nymph dance in which Zorina, in skintight gold tunic, rises from the bottom of a fountain to astound a gentleman in dinner clothes. The Goldwyn girls, trade-mark of every Sam Goldwyn musical, appear only in the jazz v. classics ballet, are sorely missed thereafter...
...people said that since it was Dr. Shapera's business to treat dogs, the statue was an advertisement and therefore violated a district zoning ordinance. The veterinarian retorted that it was not an advertisement but a work of art-just as artistic, in his eyes, as a marble nymph or a cast-iron deer. One of Dr. Shapera's neighbors happens to be Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed reptile man of the Bronx Zoo. Dr. Ditmars not only declared Iron Mike to be "as offensive as a cigar-store Indian and as emblematic as the three balls over...
...Every girl--colleen, pardon me -- is a type; if she's rude, she is a hoyden; if lewd, a minx; if lovely, a nymph; if lovely and black-eyed, a houri (that comes from an Arabian word, he parenthesized with a smack of his lips). Now, you may think there is no difference between a vixen, for which are wrongly substituted the obsolete words 'virago' and 'termagant,' and a shrew. But there is! A shrew is always a brawling woman, while a vixen is merely bad-tempered...
...finished school in Belfast, where his father is a biology professor, Errol Flynn got bit parts on the London stage, later went to Tahiti, bought a boat, fished for pearls, prospected for gold in New Guinea. Back in London he got stage parts in Othello, Another Language, The Constant Nymph. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), brawny (180 lb.), he boxed on England's 1928 Olympic team...