Word: panther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lovingly, on surfaces. Like his fellow historian in American fiction, Robert Graves, Allen is weakest in his departures into romantic interludes. Unlike Graves, he has a passion for extremes; the 6 ft. 4 in. Salathiel Albine with muscles "like fluid oak wood" and the movements of "a young male panther" sets the superscale that marks the whole work for good and bad. And in his eager use of sentimental aspects of the Scottish border novel, Allen is capable of sinking to turgid depths, of causing a betrayed girl to cry out passionately against her ducal seducer...
...Harlem once-famed Heavyweight Harry ("The Black Panther") Wills, now 51, entered the third week of his annual monthlong hot-&-cold-water diet, was down from 260 Ib. to 215, felt "as full of vigor as when...
...work is represented by 22 canvases. Only the most fanatical Corot connoisseurs will recognize in these masterpieces the painter of so many gloomy women (The Pensive Muse, The Pensive Woman, The Gypsy with the Basque Drum), so many prancing nymphs and paintings like The Bacchante and the Panther, in which a nude woman holds up a dead bird to a panther ridden by a nude cherub...
Solid Senders in Chicago. When traffic lights in Chicago's Loop flash red Saturday night, cars often line up for a solid block. At the Sherman Hotel, customers stand eight deep at the long Celtic Bar; downstairs in the Panther Room, where a normal New Year's crowd is 1,100, nearly 2,500 swing-loving youngsters cramp in to hear the solid-sending of Glenn Miller's band...
Although the place of publication was a thinly disguised "Bawston," other figures in the articles such as "Pinkie" and "Patsy" and "Panther-Puss" were less easy for the novice to identify. Neither personalities nor departments of the University were sacred to the whimsical and anonymous editors who labeled one cut as "The Dean Shovels It Out to First Year Suckers...