Word: postcarder
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...thing, he was so anxious to please Victoria's consort, the German Prince Albert, that his paintings took on the dead, glassy surface favored by the Germans. From then on, everything about his work degenerated. His famous Monarch of the Glen-a postcard stag perched upon an improbable peak-was painted for the refreshment room of the House of Lords, but Commons, in its homely wisdom, never got around to voting the money. His Dignity and Impudence is a coyly saccharine affair showing a drooping bloodhound trying to be oblivious to a cocky terrier sharing his kennel. And when...
...spectators broke through the police cordon around the church, nearly crushed the bride. After cutting the wedding cake, Jackie acknowledged the toasts gracefully, then noted that her mother had always told her to wait and judge a man by his correspondence. With quiet humor, she held up a postcard from Bermuda with a picture of a passion flower. On the back was scrawled: "Wish you were here. Cheers. Jack." "This," said Jackie, "is my entire correspondence from Jack...
Mail to Democratic National Headquarters has run nearly 100 to 1 against the appointment of Bobby Kennedy as Attorney General, while weightier Cabinet choices, e.g., Dean Rusk for Secretary of State, have hardly drawn a postcard of comment either way. Bobby has been told. He will take great pains to watch his step...
...typical of Bernard Shaw, one of the last of the great 19th century rationalist optimists, that in his Pygmalion, Professor Henry Higgins teaches Eliza Doolittle into existence. Give Shaw an actress, a breed he regarded as intrinsically brainless, and the sage would begin playing post office, or frequently postcard. Absence definitely made Shaw's heart grow fonder, and for added emotional insurance the women were al ways married, as was he. The two most celebrated of these epistolary romances involved Mrs. Pat Campbell and Ellen Terry, but the headiest, cranially speaking, has only just come to light. Shaw...
...unteachable Molly proposed to live with him, and Shaw was scandalized: "The degradation to Literature, the insult to Charlotte's memory would be such that I should be justified in shooting you if there were no other way of preventing you from crashing my gates." Yet his last postcard to her a year before his death (she died last summer) is a bit of romantic doggerel ending with an Irish endearment...