Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scrambling to his feet, the bull, wavering neither to left nor right, charged head-on for the jeep that had goaded him. As the jeep pulled back, he saw a picador with a sharper lance astride a well-padded horse nearby and whirled to charge the horse. The riders of the jeep were quick to approve. Above the young bull's number in a thick registry book, a rider initialed in red ink the letters B.P. (for Bravo Pronto). That meant that two years later, on some Sunday afternoon, in some jam-packed arena in Latin America, the fighting...
Cinemogul Darryl Zanuck, off to the Riviera, looked forward to some hobnobbing with the international set. "I like them," he told a columnist. "They don't talk show business ... In fact, most of them never saw a movie and think a movie is something you see through a peep glass after you put a dime in the slot...
...time went on, Meryon saw stranger things. His later cityscapes were ruined, collectors thought, by the introduction of monstrous birds and whales wallowing overhead. After he had printed etchings of two perpendicular boxes in which a man and a woman were padlocked to sleep standing up, and made a written attack on ordinary beds ("A piece of furniture that serves the purpose of laziness and lust"), Meryon was hustled off to a madhouse. There, at 46, he died...
...Germans was their zeal for opera. The Germans started a Dutch opera with native singers and musicians and the Dutch loved it. At war's end, they decided to keep it. Last week, at Holland's third annual music festival in Amsterdam and Scheveningen, music lovers saw the decision magnificently justified. The new Netherlands Opera gave as fine a performance of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice as had been heard in years. The cast got a dozen curtain calls and a standing ovation from happy Am-sterdamers and their visitors. Minister of Arts F. J. Rutten exclaimed...
Businessmen, anxiously scanning the skies for a clue to the economic weather, saw more dark clouds ahead. Industry was still cutting back production; the Federal Reserve Board's production index had dropped in May to 174 (v. 192 a year before) and had gone on down in June to an estimated 170. Unemployment was still rising. In June, with more than one million extra job-seekers out of school and college, it rose to 3,788,000, the highest in seven years...