Word: splash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three issues throughout the world. Bevin went to the British embassy, where Ambassador Clark Kerr turned over to him his living room-bedroom-bath apartment which he calls "Proust" because it has a paneled bath room like the one in which Author Marcel Proust's Albertine used to splash. Clark Kerr's bedroom has dark walnut paneling under a royal blue border with gold flow ers. The paneling is covered with gnomes, dwarfs, beggars and oilier baroque gremlins. (Clark Kerr tells friends he wants an air gun so he can shoot gnomes.) Gnomish Viacheslav Molotov is cautious...
...Times's editors paid off Kluckhohn's enterprise with a three column splash on Page 1. Many afternoon subscribers ran Baillie's U.P. story under an eight-column banner. The New York Herald Tribune (probably a little miffed at the Times's scoop-it printed Baillie's story a day later on Page 8) had some hard words on a subject which has troubled many an editor: "Who gains most by an 'exclusive interview'-the paper, or the man who gives it out?" (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Ritz stagline, was pushed into the position not only of spokesman for the time but of the typical product." Actresses whom he had worshipped from afar now eagerly lunched at his apartment. When he stepped into a public fountain in the small hours, the gossip columns turned the splash into a tidal wave. The morning after a mild argument with a cop, he read: "Fitzgerald Knocks Officer This Side of Paradise." It was a life which passed incessantly "through strange doors into strange apartments, with intermittent swings in taxis through the soft nights. . . . We were one with New York, pulling...
Corporal John C. Corbett of the 8th Marines had won a signal honor. He picked up a stone and hurled it with all his strength from the low cliffs of southern Okinawa into the blue waters which lapped the shore. That stone's splash meant that the eleven-week drive by U.S. forces from the center of the island had at last reached the southern...
Canada's election campaign, conducted with the utmost decorum and a minimum of splash and frippery, was a reflection of Canada's character. Wrote Bruce Hutchison, able novelist (The Hollow Men) and associate editor of the Winnipeg Free Press...