Word: wile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slap fully as resounding as that which Scarlett O'Hara deals to Ashley Wilkes to give Gone With the Wind its real start. When Pres goes, Julie is confident he will come back. A year later he does return, with a Northern bride (Margaret Lindsay). With every vixenish wile she can think of, Julie tries to satisfy her longing and her hate. When a duel born of her scheming results in Buck Cantrell's death, even her motherly aunt (Fay Bainter) calls Julie a Jezebel...
...line-"B and B" (for Benedictine & Brandy). This combination is familiar to every barfly who has found Benedictine too saccharine, mixed Cognac with it for a drier beverage. In such abrupt mixing, however, brandy floats on rather than blends with Benedictine. The Manhattan liquor firm, of Julius Wile Sons & Co. spent two years persuading the Le Grand family that it could do a better job by aging the two together. Last week Julius Wile got the first shipment, bottled in the ancient bottle devised by the monks and bearing the traditional Benedictine symbol-D.O.M. (for Deo Optimo Maximo...
...WILD GOOSE CHASE-Rex Warner -Knopf ($2.75). A lengthy, parabolic fantasy about three brothers who go into a far country to chase the symbolic Wile Geese. English Author Warner admires the mystical novels of Franz Kafka. Publisher Knopf believes that this book is perhaps another Gulliver's Travels. Hard boiled readers will find it like the curate...
...brow. Because of an intense experience in his childhood, his poetic imagination took on a somewhat morbid tinge: he worshipped love, life and death as aspects of a trinity. This attitude, with his handsome face and title, made him a devastating lover but an unsatisfactory husband. While his adoring wile and son lived for his infrequent visits home, Sparkenbroke loved, suffered and wrote in his villa in Italy, with his valet, a kind of super-Jeeves, as his only steady companion. Though apparently he wrote only poetry and poetic novels, his fame was international and his earnings very fair...
...Wile parking his car on Orway Street near Massachusetts Avenue late yesterday afternoon, John Calvocoressi '38 was held up by two gunmen...