Word: couchant
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...eight weeks ago was neatly knitted, and there was no trace of the bronchitis that had worried doctors during his convalescence. So, after 54 days in London's Middlesex Hospital, Sir Winston Churchill, 87, went home at last. Carried to a waiting ambulance in a sedan chair, the couchant old lion, chomping his usual Havana cigar and giving a victorious V-sign to a cheering curbside crowd of 1,000, was whisked away to his Hyde Park Gate home for a champagne toast to his recovery. Puffed one proud bystander: "He's a ruddy marvel...
...explained Novelist Metalious, "I sat for a long time in my house in New Hampshire. Last spring one day George came to my house and said, 'Now are you ready to come home?' I said, ;Yes.' " Her current project: a spicy expose of indecencies, rampant and couchant, among the winter colony on Martha's Vineyard...
Eventually, the apparatus was available in the form of a dolphin (rampant), a lion (couchant), or embellished with the "blue magnolia design." ^ In 1900 the Syphonic Closet of the Century was announced. It was clean and decent, but it missed the pungent grandeur of the commode from which Louis XIV announced his forthcoming marriage to Mme. de Maintenon. And it cannot have given its users the satisfaction of the chamber pot, or jerry, available to Britons around 1800, whose interior was limned with a portrait of Napoleon...
...also the year of 3-D, Cinema-Scope, Cinerama, big screen, stereophonic sound and other technical tricks designed to make Marilyn Monroe look 64 feet long (couchant) and intended to lure back, by sheer gigantism, the public that had been lost to 17-inch TV screens. This too was sometimes called progress...
...lion rampant. But a party brochure picked the hen as its symbolic heroine and proclaimed, with a snort at Labor's noisy ranks: "The cock crows, but the hen delivers the goods." Which is the proper symbol for the Tories, asked the Manchester Guardian, lion rampant or hen couchant...