Word: penguine
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...night, everybody is there-cops, professors, bums, Wall Street customers' men, out-of-work actors with Biblical haircuts, dye-blonde actresses with bright blue eyelids; sailors in summer whites, girls in their summer dresses, girls in slacks, pony-tailed skinks from Greenwich Village, and novice beards with the Penguin Classics in the hip hip pockets of their dungarees-fabricating laughter in all the archaic places. The crowd begins on folding chairs around a large and multi-proned stage, then spreads out onto bleachers and grass-covered slopes. About 3,500 turn up in Manhattan's Central Park each...
Italian sportswear, always ingenious, this year includes trimmings ranging from boa-like looped-wool fringe on suits (by Pierluigi Trico) and enormous pompons on after-ski capes (by Lily Liuba) to colored felt "scoubidou"-like tassels* on ski sweaters (by Lida di Trepuzzi). Centinaro, who calls her line "Penguin" (the pouch-backed shape), shows shiny black spaghetti-fringe collars and olive-green fur linings. Albertina's boutique features knit suits and coats made without cutting or seaming and guaranteed to be sagproof, and Roland-who must have seen The Wild One-spotlights a skintight, all-black leather ensemble...
...such as the almost-standard one of Bayard Taylor, the recent attempt by Alice Raphael, and a new one by Walter Kaufmann that is just now reaching the booksellers. But there is a superbly fashioned fresh translation (of both Part One and Part Two) by Philip Wayne, in the Penguin Classics series; and I urge its adoption for the first Loeb production...
...seller was Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach, a randy, rowdy, penguin-shaped man who was the most successful and most flamboyant rare-book dealer in history...
Bird, Bristling softly for the shape that comes quilling for wind (your war, whatever calms) With your squalling, tantrum toward song! Flight shall yet stick to that penguin wing... Sandy's attempt to create great concentration seems in this case to fall somewhat short of cohesion...