Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coulter charged that Judge Roberts tried to "save the police's face" in his summary of the case by pointing out the "unusual circumstances" surrounding the arraignment...
Wheeler developed new machines and plugged them with ads such as "Flora May figured to save Paw's shirt" (because he always lost his shirt playing red dog with the boys around the post office, Flora May bought him a postage machine instead). He also made a name for himself as a liberal businessman...
...Venice in 1913. Novelist Johnson has changed his name and shifted time and place to modern Bruges in Belgium, but she has kept intact his characteristics. Skipton boasts a Corvo-like title: Bulgarian "Knight of the Most Noble Order of SS, Cyril and Methodius." He scorns everything in creation save the Creator and his saints, spends prissy hours washing and tidying himself like an obsessed cat. rewrites his latest "masterpiece" endlessly in green, black and red inks. His belly swings interminably between empty and half-full, but his attitude to foes and benefactors alike is unvarying: "I will take your...
...snob delights for the woman in the party; for both sexes he arranges a Pigalle-type "spectacle." But by summer's end Skipton has himself been swindled out of what little money remains to him: his sole consolation is that death is close enough to save him from the agonies of another winter...
British Novelist Johnson parodies Rolfe to perfection in all his attributes save one; the mad genius that cut Hadrian the Seventh into one of the diamonds of modern fiction. But she tells her tale waspishly and well, and transports to the canals of Bruges much of the sacred luster and glory that Frederick Rolfe adored in Venice...