Word: confounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scrambles legend and topical satire. While her husband King Lot is away fighting Arthur, Queen Morgause, comic symbol of the egocentric wife, attempts the seduction of lovesick King Pellinore (3.2 Don Quixote) and Sir Grummore Grummursum (Sancho Panza on rye). Meanwhile her neglected sons Gawaine, Agravaine, Gaheris and Gareth confound their Saracen tutor Palomides, who talks rather like Charlie Chan, and beg stories from heretic St. Torealvac (parody brogue), who inhabits a beehive and drinks mountain...
PINKHAM NOTCH, N. H.--Out of the teeth of the worst autumn blizzard in Mount Washington's recent history, a girl and two youths trudged today, alive and well, to confound forest rangers who had given them only "one chance in a million" to survive...
...brother of the Marind-Anim tribe. He returned to his native islands to make a travel film, having married the expedition's backer in Java and taken her along for the honeymoon. He says that some day he is going to bring back the dinosaur he saw and confound his skeptics. Meantime, he has brought back a passel of tales which raise the hair and eyebrows as high as any published since William Seabrook's 'jungle Ways...
Dick Grondahl pushed a single into right, which the fielder promptly threw to the grandstand to confound the catcher who was trying to cut off speeding Johns, Hoye going to third. Lupien slapped a long triple over the center-fielder's head, scoring Hoya and Grondahl. Soltz repeated the process, Lupien tallying...
...years, have the works of Pablo Picasso continued to delight the knowledgeable and confound the common man. Flying like a shuttlecock between the esthetic debaters of two continents, the very name of Picasso has been a symbol of irresponsibility to the old, of audacity to the young. To millions of solid citizens it has been one of the two things they know about modern art- the other being that they don't like it. But the show a Rosenberg's had a new significance, because it came at the full tide of a new period both in Picasso...