Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...princesses: the penniless dukes and counts sponge delicately on the newly rich; back of every exquisite dinner stands a temperamental chef with handlebar mustaches. It has been Bemelmans' art to convince his U.S. public not only that such a dream world exists, but that Bemelmans himself carries the skeleton key to its secret closets...
...Incorruptible. His old friends, seeing him again at war's end, hardly recognized him. The change was more than physical. His disposition had become icy and acerbic, his patience with arguers was gone, his confidence in his own judgment absolute. "He was a skeleton," says Carlo Schmid, now the No. 3 man in the party, "but there could be no doubt that he was the strongest power, that he had the greatest political brain, the most evident power of judgment. He had never given in to atmosphere or psychological pressures . . . [Now] he was as incorruptible as a geometrical theorem...
...marks of Stendhal's particular brand of greatness, such as his sharp, plain, declarative manner of speaking and his genius for showing the depths of one character by pointing up the shallowness of another. But Lamiel is not a masterpiece, for the same reason that a human skeleton is not a human being. It is a book that Stendhal fans and students of novel writing might well read over & over to find out how a novel grows. But Stendhal said of it: "The great and actual object is laughter"; and the true measure of Lamiel's incompleteness...
...Vatican Library-as a clerk, filing index cards. He stretched his $80-a-month salary, on which he supported a wife and four daughters, by translating from the German at a nickel a page. Meanwhile, he kept in touch with his fellow Christian Democrats, and when Mussolini fell, a skeleton Christian party was ready. By April 1945 De Gasperi was Italy's Foreign Minister; by year's end he was named Premier. The first thing De Gasperi did was to get a salary advance so he could buy a good blue suit...
...Center is "slowing down" because over a year the government's demands have lessened, Clark explained. "We will keep a skeleton office force and the know-how and thus always be ready to expand," he added...