Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Firm? The smiles of Potsdam slowly froze into "patience and firmness." And firmness began, with the announcement of the Marshall Plan, to become more than a word...
...nine shillings." It was no go. "Well," said Charlie, "I could cover it with a nice nude and a Latin inscription." "No more women," said Mrs. Lambert. At last Charlie had an idea. "Why not a snake? That would cover it." Cecil Lambert, who hadn't said a word, started from his lethargy. "Can't stand snakes," he cried. "Dream of them ever since I saw them in Burma." A snake, said Charlie's wife, would be just the thing...
...pronounce the magic phrase, 'Petite Marmite!' ... On moonlight nights we used to ... visit a gigantic spider. . . . From time to time I get a telegram which says 'Spider,' and I wire right back, 'Petite Marmite.' Then I usually get another wire . . . with just the word 'Petite.' And thus our friendship goes on, forever unalterable, since the thing that breaks up relationships between two people is usually an excess of words...
...Giuseppe feel about his reception? Said he, in the one word of American he learned from G.I.s during the war: "O.K." Born in Sicily, Giuseppe studied for the priesthood until he was 15 and found a girl. ("Until then I thought parents bought children in the market place, but when I found different-no seminary for me.") During the war, serving in the Italian army, he was captured by the Germans, but escaped in women's clothes he stole from the camp show equipment. He arrived in the U.S. with eleven trunks. Says Giuseppe: "I want to make much...
...pose for him, he imitated the impossible glare of sunshine, and he even dared to picture nudes in contemporary settings. Napoleon III himself pronounced Manet's Déjeuner sur I'Herbe (see cut) a threat to public morals. Public disgust was summed up in one word-a word delivered with the sneers reserved for "abstractionism" today-"realism...