Word: robe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into pretentious overuse of French words and phrases. Most, readers will be justly irritated, for example, at being obliged to swallow sentences as obscurely pregnant as the following: "In a sense, the noblesse de ĺépée was almost innocent compared with the noblesse de la robe. For the court nobility was at least true to form; the intriguers of oeil-de-boeuf were the spiritual as well as the fleshly heirs of the frivolous leaders of the Fronde...
...insofar as the "Klan" is concerned, I never belonged to the Klan, never made application for membership in the same, never donned a Robe, never took an OATH in the same...
...presidium of China's National Assembly were closed, or so everyone supposed, when up rose Ma Ching-oung, a rebel from the west. Ma could spin a prayer wheel, but he had never heard of Robert's Rules of Order. Wrapped in his purple lama's robe, his sharp eyes aglitter and his skinny arms aflutter, the delegate from Sikang Province cried hotly into the mike...
...difference between Joy and such popular religious novels as The Robe and The Song of Bernadette is the difference between a papal nuncio and a parish priest. Essentially a parable of intellectual temptation, the book is primarily dialectical in method, and almost wholly devoid of the usual stage effects of fiction. It is charged with burning vitality, but its drama exists mainly in the consciences of the characters...
Viveca Lindfors, the Swedish Royal Dramatic Academy's latest gift to Hollywood (others: Garbo, Bergman, Signe Hasso), started work on her first picture and first starring role, Night unto Night. She also posed prettily in Hollywood's favorite robe, which her publicists explained she would wear on the screen...