Word: stoniest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the "forward look" in new U.S. automobiles, the upswept bristles of Major Michael Woodfall's military mustache created an impression of dynamic motion even when the major himself was at ease. Alone his glorious mustache would have been enough to command the respect of the stoniest of Mayfair's headwaiters. But added to the mustache were such other facts as the fit of the Savile Row suits, which clung to his lithe frame with the easy perfection of a snakeskin, and the verve with which he followed hounds with the Cornwall Hunt...
...11th century Coventry the penalty for snooping was stern indeed: the original Peeping Tom, according to legend, was struck blind for stealing a glance at Lady Godiva during her famous ride. Nowadays, the punishment is less severe, but it is still enough to bring tears to the stoniest private eye. In a Manhattan courtroom last week Private Investigator John ("Steve") Broady, 52, was near to tears. Reason: he had been convicted of illegal eavesdropping, on 16 counts related to wiretapping. Maximum sentence: 27 years in prison...
...book which drew such hot blood from one of the stoniest critics of the day was, on the face of it, the simple account of how a boy floated down the "Father of Waters" on a raft in the middle of the last century, and of the adventures he met with on the way. The story is told in the first person, by the boy himself, in a lingo that rolls fresh and sweet off his tongue-the real true talk of Missouri a hundred years ago. Eliot calls the author's style "a new discovery in the English...