Word: puce
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...religion, and hope itself are derided in the mad figures inhabiting the horse. One is a naked but derby-hatted fellow named Maloney the Areopagite, who is writing the life of Saint Puce, a flea that was born in Christ's armpit. Another is John Raskolnikov Gilson, an eighth-grade schoolboy who wants to sleep with Miss McGeeney, his English teacher. In order to make his views known ("How sick I am of literary bitches. But they're the only kind that'll have me"), the boy has written a pamphlet that sounds very like West...
...though he is only a graduating senior. If you ask him he will tell you that it is for a little degree he picked up the summer he spent in Florence. "They simply forced it on me," he will say, "though personally I can't bear that touch of puce on the inner fold...
...though he is only a graduating senior. If you ask him he will tell you that it is for a little degree he picked up the summer he spent in Florence. "They simply forced it on me," he will say, "though personally I can't bear that touch of puce on the inner fold...
...welcomed the fat rent she paid for his manor. But he suffered an anguish of snobbery over having his ancestral home occupied by a bunch of "elderly . . . slightly deformed [school] mistresses" dressed in wartime "utility non-crease . . . ready-made dresses of a kind of fine sacking in shades of puce [and] dirty tomato'' -to say nothing of the Cockney girls "in shapeless purple flannel blazers [and] pudding-bowl grey felt hats." The Squire and his family wondered what the world was coming to. "Poor Harefield is practically in the hands of the Jews," muttered the Belton son-&-heir...
...Connell at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross. First State wedding in Massachusetts history, surrounded by the pomp & panoply of a royal nuptial, the ceremony was witnessed by 3,000 persons including twelve blushing policemen in hired cutaways, striped trousers, silk hats, ascot ties, grey spats and puce-colored vests...