Word: tome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...material which is denied the general public." Among the material that the federals would deny to Scholar Kinsey: 1) six naughty Chinese paintings dating from about 1750, 2) some spicy Parisian lithographs, 3) a handful of wooden and stone phallic symbols from China, 4) a little 18th century tome titled The Lascivious Hypocrite, or The Triumphs of Vice, 5) a rather obscene Japanese scroll, 6) filthy drawings and lewd notations, tagged simply, "lavatory wall inscriptions...
...signing a construction contract, Niarchos believes in letting the shipbuilder do the job without niggling interference. Though the World Glory was the world's biggest tanker when it was launched in 1954, Niarchos gave Bethlehem Shipbuilding a scant four pages of specifications instead of the usual 4-lb. tome; he sent no inspectors aboard until just before the tanker was launched...
Britain's leading sexpert and birth controller, Dr. Marie (Married Love) Stopes, 73, had the tight little isle atwitter over a recently published tome titled Sleep. In their present-day sleeping practices, declares twice-married Dr. Stopes, mother of two, Britons are going from bed to worse. One of the doctor's prescriptions for greater nocturnal bliss: "The wife [should] have a room with a double bed and the husband . . . a bedroom to himself for general use, keeping the wife's bedroom a romantic place." On bed alignment: "The head of the bed should be north...
...forest giant, working his way up and down the Master's monolithic novel, Remembrance of Things Past. As the Proustman has more than a million words and hundreds of characters to examine, he has had reason to be thankful that the Master left but a single major tome behind...
...staid and worthy upholder of the honor of the Montagues." Says Hamlet: "Dr. Bombasticus persuaded me that I was very young and had no understanding of statecraft. I apologized to my mother for any rude things I might have said." Moral: An ounce of poetry is worth a tome of Freud...