Word: waft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lambert Pharmacal Co. was already rich enough to pop huge silver spoons in the mouths of all the little Lamberts. Their St. Louis home was full of the murmur of menservants, and in the dining room of their country mansion, "there were always two little colored girls ... to waft the flies from us with enormous peacock feathers." When the time came for Gerard to go to Yale, he thought it would be wise to case the ancient joint before entrusting his person to it. Horrified by its soiled, congested appearance, Gerard entered Princeton, a place which to him really "looked...
Well might Connecticut's Fairfield County be indignant. Well might the fire bells ring through Pennsylvania's Bucks, and icy disdain waft across Long Island's North Shore. For Author Spectorsky, once a commuter himself, has turned traitor to his class and performed a hatchet job on the commuting world around New York City. He writes not about Suburbia ("dull and demure domesticity") but about Exurbia, his word for the belt just beyond. Unlike many more naive chroniclers, Spectorsky does not pretend that all the suburbs or exurbs are alike. And he records the differences with...
Outside the bunkhouse, the Rev. Rudy Hernandez unlimbered his marimba and began to waft La Paloma into the evening air. One by one the men strolled out to listen, and Hernandez' assistant got ready the tracts. The Cottonpatch Crusade was under way in Pecos, Texas...
When I Stop Loving You (Frank Sinatra; Capitol). The breeze that accompanies a few welcome cliches might waft this melodious ballad into popularity...
...such a flimsy plot, Lehmann drapes a super production involving 160-odd voices, 13 changes of scene, 94 stage hands, 37 electricians and some 100 supers. There is a showgirl chorus line, and eight special ballets. Flowery perfumes, concocted to match Weber's music, waft through the theater. In Act II there are no fewer than nine women suspended on nearly invisible wires above the staga ("They reminded me of airplanes waiting to land," said one reviewer...