Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your Aug. 22 issue: "[Elizabeth Taylor's] complexion has been described by an ecstatic publicity man as 'a bowl of cream with a rose floating in it.' " Please compare . . . Elegy on Cynthia of Sextus Propertius: "Lilies would not surpass my mistress for whiteness; 'tis as though maeotic snows were to strive with Spanish vermillion, or rose leaves floated amid stainless milk (utque rosae puro lacte natant folia)." Please remember Propertius lived circa 24 B.C., and besides, Cynthia, we are told, had yellow hair and black eyes. Could she have been the ecstatic publicity...
...switch, setting off the rocket's igniter. The rocket was not supposed to go off until "zero," but as Commander Murphy chanted "4 . . . 3 . . ." an enormous, fiery blast broke out from under its fins. For a fraction of a second, the rocket hesitated. For another fraction it rose slowly. Then it rose like a streak, as if an irresistible force had picked it off the earth and tossed it into the sky. Behind it trailed a jet stream mixed with white dashes of visible sound waves. A gigantic roar rolled across the desert, rolled back from the steep Organ...
...eventually come to Delacroix' defense with the simple assertion that, whether or not such a horse ever existed, the painter was perfectly justified in inventing it. Even with such a shield-bearer, Delacroix lost the battle. When he died in 1863, almost everyone still agreed that his rose horse was awful...
Straw-haired, sleekly groomed Fleur Cowles doesn't own a hat, usually wears tailored suits, a rose, and black horn-rimmed glasses, is never without a huge (1 in.) Russian emerald ring ("It's my trademark, it's me, it's Fleur - rough, uncut, vigorous"). Says she: "I've worked hard, and I've made a fortune, and I did it in a man's world, but always, ruthlessly, and with a kind of cruel insistence, I have tried to keep feminine." For a sampling of Fleur's insistent femininity, readers could...
Many appliance makers were feeling the effect of the expiration of consumer credit controls (installment credit rose to an alltime peak of $9.3 billion in July). General Electric Co.'s President Charles E. Wilson said that the outlook was bright (see below) and that G.E.'s appliance business had picked up more than it usually does in the summer. Other appliance makers, who had cut back for lack of orders in the spring, were once more allocating some goods and calling back furloughed workers...