Word: omnium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...critics, and has won a devoted, sometimes even fanatical, audience. In Manhattan, liquor store dealers have been startled by a sudden demand for a liqueur called orange Curaçao. The reason can now be told: it was the favorite drink of Trollope's crusty old Duke of Omnium. Oxford University Press, which publishes the six Palliser volumes, quickly cleaned out its stock after the TV program began in late January; it ordered a second printing and is selling that out as well. The sales have been particularly impressive considering the formidable cost of the books...
Victorian Equation. The first episode opens in the early 1860s at the Duke of Omnium's annual garden party. Glencora M'Cluskie, an orphaned heiress, alarms her aunts by flirting with Burgo Fitzgerald, a young dissolute whom Trollope describes as the handsomest man in all England. The aunts thereupon pick up their skirts and march up to the old duke to present him with an inescapable fact: they have an eligible niece, while he has an eligible nephew-his heir, the aspiring politician Plantagenet Palliser. The duke sees the merit of the equation and gives his nephew...
Duchess of Omnium. Along the way, their lives intertwine with-among a hundred or so others-a headstrong early feminist, Alice Vavasor, and her rascally cousin George; a young radical M.P. from Ireland, Phineas Finn; and a mistreated wife, Lady Laura Kennedy, who flees from her cruel husband, a rich Scottish baron...
...than 330,000 subscribers. In another sense, that world seemed to have no boundaries. It played host to Alexander Woollcott, Parker and Robert Benchley, and published the poems and short stories of almost every writer worth a second look. Such diversity should imply a 50-year-old scrapbook, an omnium-gatherum without standards or values. The literate world knows better. The very term "New Yorker piece" connotes scruple and concern...
...appropriate that Lyndon Johnson should have brought together a crowd as large and richly complex as his own history had been. The ceremonies dedicating the new L.B.J. Library at the University of Texas last week were the greatest omnium-gatherurn of present and former political power since the last presidential inauguration; it was a retrospective gallery of an era. There, under the monolithic and somehow Assyrian proportions of the library, were several thousand of Lyndon Johnson's friends and not a few of his old enemies, along with Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew and dozens of the other...