Word: rump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ballet, Drums Sound in Hackensack, proved that Choreographer de Mille, like her movie-directing Uncle Cecil B., has a touch, and the touch made it seem that, among the New Amsterdam Dutch of 1650, there was no situation which would not be improved by a saucy twitch of the rump...
...State of New Hampshire last week was asked to cut a slice off its own overfat parliamentary rump. New Hampshire's Constitution provides one representative for every town (or city ward) of 600 inhabitants, one more for every 1,200 additional citizens. When the Legislature is in session, say old New Hampshiremen, with tongue in cheek, there is a scarcity of labor in the State...
...piece of sculpture, from a single piece of laminated plywood. Saarinen & Eames's new chair, carefully molded to fit the human form and cushioned with a covering of sponge-rubber, looked something like a fur-lined bedpan on stilts. But sitters found that it made up in rump-appeal what it lacked in looks...
...event, if Edouard Herriot were really heading a subversive rump parliament last week, he could scarcely have felt easy about his own future. Vichy was getting fascistically tougher than ever. It was the first anniversary of Marshal Pétain's French Legion-veterans of two wars who support the Marshal. For three days there was Nazi-style mummery. By foot and airplane some 20,000 Legionnaires carried torches, lit from the eternal flame at the Unknown Soldier's tomb in Paris, to many parts of Vichyfrance and the Empire. Finally, in Vichy's stadium Marshal...
Last week it was reported from Vichy that Edouard Herriot was heading a secretly-meeting rump parliament of 100 French Senators and Deputies opposed to the Nazi-powered Vichy regime. Credence was speedily lent this report by Vichy decree. Senators and Deputies were ordered to stop meeting officially or semiofficially in Vichy, to move their offices to Châtel-guyon-les-Bains, a tiny spa 45 miles from Vichy...