Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paunchy, sloppy, nervous and absentminded, he sits in an enormous office, his pince-nez suspended on a black ribbon, ashes all over his vest. Before he has finished his cigar, he starts sucking a cold pipe, then returns to the cigar. He speaks into an intercommunicator, gets no answer, shouts at it, then finds he forgot to turn it on. Chuckling and giggling, he delights in whimsies, fables and gags of the sort that baffle most businessmen, some of whom think he is insane...
...that it had never lost a foot of ground to the enemy or surrendered a prisoner to him. By Armistice, it had spent more time in action (191 days) than any other U. S. outfit, and when it marched up Fifth Avenue in February 1919, the green-and-red ribbon of the French Croix de Guerre floated from the staff of its regimental standard...
...London and Paris, Yeats became the leader of this faction-whose foes, it was agreed, were the blackguards and fools who championed moral complacence, social respectability and badly written books. Among these foes Yeats circulated bravely and ceaselessly. With his long, flowing cloak, hair, tie and pince-nez ribbon, hawk face and eagle brow, he impersonated a priestly poet so perfectly that many were won to believe that such a thing could exist. With Edward Martyn, George Moore and Lady Gregory he founded the Abbey Theatre (1904), gave the often mocking and protesting public large doses of mythological drama, forced...
Another blue ribbon New England product is Bob Bennett of Maine, defending title holder in the hammer throw who should break the meet record. Bennett will be prodded to a record smashing effort by such proven athletes as John McLaughry, son of the Brown football coach, Stan Johnson of Maine, Niles Perkins of Bowdoin, and Bill Shallow of Harvard...
...give you five minutes," saic Princess Kropotkin. Sue went up and stayed an hour. The Princess told Sue that she had been overcome with boredom after a cocktail party when she accepted an invitation to look at a proud Hoosier's "blue ribbon" stable, found it filled with "giant farm horses"-Percherons. The Princess said she had never before realized that Midwestern men could get drunk on so little liquor...