Word: underneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something Impalpable. "Just as in autumn," cries Sir Osbert Sitwell, casting his radiant glance back over the Firbank life work, "the silver cobwebs lightly cover the trees with a thin mist of impalpable beauty, so a similar . . . intangible loveliness hung over every page, while wit ran in, round, and underneath each word...
...verdict gushes too high. Firbank's light and dexterous hand may have "altered the pace of dialogue for the [contemporary] novel" and his work may represent a "startling technical achievement." But the proper place for his silver cobwebs is in, round, and underneath a closed circle of impalpable esthetes...
...foot long piece of wood sculpture of ancient indigenous origin, with lots of room on which to lay your note-book, of whatever shape you may have, and your hat, if you wear one, your spare pencil, your spectacles and your watch, with lots of leg-room underneath, to tilt, squirm, or sprawl as the fancy seizes you-or a smooth, varnished wood-and-iron chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with the right arm designed for writing on, that is widened enough to take one roundish shaped piece of paper or a clip-board...
...Underneath the issue of who had the best war record, or even who was related to the best war record, the adversaries were dueling with the kind of small arms and fieldpieces most Democrats and Republicans would be firing in next year's regular congressional elections. So far, most political wiseacres were betting on Mrs. Coffey to win in next week's election, but she had proved so ineffectual a campaigner that it might be close...
...Underneath the lantern, by the barrack