Word: toad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unlike the Piper's troops, Lobel's keep reappearing and asking for more. He has responded with scores of books, and this season he presents Days with Frog and Toad (Harper & Row; $5.95), five short stories that teach the value of friendship, as well as the delights of working, loafing and being alone...
...sweeten adversity, Shakespeare played up the toad's jeweled eye rather than its warts and bloat. Dr. William Ober, a Boston-born pathologist with an 18th century prose style and a tart Yankee wit, would rather dissect the toad. The eye looks out for itself; the rude and frequently ugly support systems of truth and beauty need all the help they can get. There is, of course, a long history of the artist as freak and invalid: Plato's ideas of divine mania; Philoctetes, the archer of Greek mythology, whose festering wounds made him unfit company; 19th century...
...long, pointy mustache for his Richard III so he could twirl it. Returning to the stage for this limited engagement (through July 15) at Broadway's Cort Theater, the man who mumbled so effectively through two Godfathers on-screen turns Shakespeare's "bunch-back'd toad" into a smarmy caricature villain out of silent movies and old comic strips; he personifies the sort of dastard who forecloses the mortgage on the family farm and threatens the virtue of fair young damsels...
...offer a standardized version of the language; its gaze is fixed instead on linguistic oddities too localized to win general acceptance. For example, Cassidy has discovered that in various parts of the U.S. a heavy rain is called a duck drencher, a chunk floater, a clod roller, a toad strangler and a goose drownder. False teeth are known colloquially as snappers, plaster pearls, chow chompers and china clippers. The term baby carriage is now used nationally, but baby coach is a popular variation in Mid-Atlantic states and baby buggy is used in the Midwest and West...
...beginning of sophomore year," the junior end from Fullerton, Calif. said while fondling the jello, "I drove three days straight to get to school. As soon as I got here, after having spent the previous night in Toad's Bar in New Haven, they dragged me down for pictures, so I want to disclaim all responsibility for my picture in the football program. They refused to take...