Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bites, Say Nothing. But most etiquettists were deadly serious in wising-up social aspirants: "[Do not] seize ladies by the waist." Never let your hostess "know that you have found . . . insects in your bed." If you "throw down a waiter loaded with splendid cut glass . . . you should not. .. appear the least mortified...
Although busy extolling the work of his own Fred Nadherny, Levi Jackson, and Company, Odell nevertheless did find time to praise Harvard's "Chip" Gannon for "his splendid work." On the line, he also gave accolades to center Jack Fisher who "was raising hell in there all afternoon." As for the team as a whole, Odell declared that it was "by far the best Harvard team I have ever faced as a Yale coach...
...clothes were expensive, they were also handsomer and of better quality. The uniform of the last postwar era had been the sack dress and cloche hat of the '20s. The trademarks of 1946 were elegance and variety; anything was in high fashion, so long as it had a splendid look. (One Manhattan store, with perfect justification, used a reproduction of John Singer Sargeant's 1884 Portrait of Madame X as an index to current style.) While the thrill lasted, U.S. women were going to be taken out and admired-if their husbands could find a tuxedo, that...
After the splendid sets he turned out for "Henry VIII," David Ffolkes proves to be a disappointment in "Borkman." His evocation of the interior of a Norwegian home in the late 1900's is unimaginative and in the last two scenes, where he is called upon for outdoor sets, he is barely competent...
...splendid achievement, said the President. But he also wanted to sound a sober note of warning. Said he: "I hope every businessman, worker, farmer and consumer will take to heart this sentence [from the report]: 'An all-out emphasis on production of finished goods and on preventing a further increase in prices is the task immediately before...