Word: figurehead
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Sprucely habited in white yachting flannels, II Duce took the tiller. Throughout the week he sailed, fished, occasionally donned his bathing suit, leaned from the prow, a wide-eyed, hirsute figurehead...
...childbirth and Tom wanders the oceans again, to shed life's monotony at last by sailing a flaming ship into a towering waterspout. There is much overwritten "psychology" in the book, but also much sensitive color-the reflection of a ripple crossing a ship's eager figurehead like a smile; a cloud of gulls "flickering like white flames" over brown glebe. The sea-lore is strong and spacious. Author Jesse, a grandniece of the late Lord Tennyson, has sailed many an ocean between spells of being a London literary celebrity and Crown servant...
...which the modern Greeks are notorious were resorted to with abandon. By 1923, Pangalos had gathered sufficient power to become chiefly instrumental in forcing King George II into exile (TIME, Dec. 31, 1923) despite the Influence of "Dictator" Plastiras, who wished to retain the King as a convenient figurehead...
...Centre parties to him and "commanded" them to settle their internal differences "within four hours" and forthwith to support Dr. Luther. Observers not seeking "copy," however, widely considered the "four-hour ultimatum" a piece of political stage business, designed to enhance the prestige of "the great German figurehead." They asserted that the following Cabinet, officially sworn in late in the week, represents merely the result of six weeks of inter-party dickering...
...Asch - Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). Some staccato words are ripped out. There is The Office: tape, shares, toil, sex, money. The office fails and you go home with the various people whose lives centre in it. A stenographer has to forget the junior partner and marry her boyfriend. The stupid figurehead of the firm trembles, tells his wife. Clerks curse, get other jobs. The junior partner brandishes his cane, plans to run away and be a heman; slinks to his father instead. The crooked partner plans another office. Author Asch seems to know his Wall Street and hate it thoroughly. Striking...