Word: parasoled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These characters whirl around the edges of The Limit like the fringe on a parasol. But at the center, holding the story up, stands Romer Wyburn, one of those proverbial Britons who scarcely ever open their mouths. "I thought he was a strong silent man, a man with an orange up his sleeve," complains his flighty wife (whom he adores), "but I've never seen the orange." Romer silently ignores her affair with a playboy until, reaching "the limit," he suddenly fetches out of his sleeve not an orange but a sledge hammer. One blow from Romer...
Some puzzlers can be answered only by experiment. Golfer Sam Snead obligingly proved that it is possible to drive a golf ball through a Providence-Pawtucket telephone book. An entomologist held a stop watch on a parasol ant, reported its rate of travel as 720 ft. an hour. Chapman, asked whether a wooden keg full of beer would float in sea water, dropped one into New York Harbor, found that it did -just barely...
Gloria Swanson, in a role which, at first blush, seems to hew ticklishly close to her own lifeline, gets a chance to mimic a parasol-twirling Mack Sennett bathing beauty, to impersonate Charlie Chaplin (as she did in 1924's Manhandled) and to burst into dazzling emotional pyrotechnics. It is as juicy a part as any actress could hope for, and Actress Swanson squeezes the last drop from...
...emperor put on a parasol-shaped red velvet hat and a golden-dragon robe, accompanied his son on the first trip abroad for any of their dynasty. In Paris he put the prince under the tutelage of former Annam Governor Eugene Charles. "I bring you a schoolboy," said Khai Dinh. "Make of him what you will." Three years later, Khai Dinh died. He was buried in a splendid mausoleum, at Hué; at the foot of his tomb lay his prized French decorations, toothbrush, Thermos bottles and "Big Ben" alarm clock. Bao Dai, who had come 'home...