Word: plumingly
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...grandson Anthony Glyn (nom de plume for Sir Geoffrey Davson, Baronet) makes plain in his slightly pious but consistently entertaining biography, the woman behind the legend was no pan-therish love goddess but a proper Victorian who put little sex into her books and found no satisfying love in her life...
...morning of Jan. 10, 1901, on a low hillock called Spindletop just outside Beaumont, Texas, gas rumbled out of its prehistoric tomb, shot up a black plume of petroleum and launched the oil age. The heavy oil spouted 200 feet into the air in the greatest gusher Americans had ever seen. Men saddled their horses and rode off, shouting: "Oil, oil on the hill." As one of the men passed 38-year-old Pattillo Higgins, he reined in, yelled: "People are saying you're the wisest man on earth. Hell, ain't you surprised?" "Not exactly." replied Higgins...
Fleeing to London to study art, she came back with an incomprehensible bad habit-smoking cigarettes. Trailing ; thin plume of smoke, Emily escaped again, this time to Paris. In Paris she felt "like a pine tree in a pot," but learned to paint in what she called "the despised, adorable, joyous, modern...
...highway sits the ambushed truck, its cab split apart, its load a charred twist of metal, its tires still burning. Near by, with automatic rifles perched on the green mounds that separate the paddies, crouch Vietnamese guardsmen, looking out across the flat fields. Several miles away, a black plume of smoke rises, and three French planes make successive dives at a field while a fourth circles overhead, spotting. Have they sighted the Viet Minh who made the ambush on this road, or another band? Just a few hundred yards from the flaming truck, coolies are working knee-deep...
...ceremonial public appearances of Paul Magloire are always kingly. Usually he is in one of his uniforms (cost: $300-$1,000 each), which variously employ the old-fashioned trappings-the plume, the spurred boot, the epaulet and the aiguillette. His manner, too, is regal; one aide carries his special, seven-inch cigars in a leather box; another stands ready to hold his gold-headed cane like a staff of office. A vast, burly man-he stands six feet and his chest measures 44 in.-Magloire carries off his formal appearances with unerring dignity. When on parade he is being what...