Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Forwards Dave Cabot, Werner Willman, and Art French are weak in their stick-handling and are a little confused by the faster tempo of this hockey, although French has improved steadily...
...responsibility for the expression "go to the dickens," a Victorian nice-nellyism for "go to the devil." But Dickens' perpetually optimistic Mr. Micawber produced micawberish and the pompous Mr. Bumble lent his name to incompetence forever after. Similarly, a hangman named Derrick is immortalized in hoisting devices, French Physician Joseph Guillotin in a machine which struck him as more humane than the ax, and be-trousered Suffragette Amelia Bloomer in billowing pantalets. It is a process that has never stopped, concludes Partridge happily-from Solon, who became a synonym for lawyer, to Mae West, who became a life jacket...
Despite the intentions of Editor Cowles and Managing Editor George Davis to make Flair "spectacularly different, completely unconventional," the new magazine often seemed like a blurred carbon copy of such well-established originals as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Town & Country. The best things in the first issue: French Artist Raymond Peynet's amorously whimsical drawings, a sepia and black Baedeker of Morocco, a new Tennessee Williams short story...
...Greatest Sacrifice." In a world that has forgotten much and forgiven more, Pablo Casals has forgiven and forgotten nothing. The French, when they made him a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, said of him: "He is a conscience of our time...
Died. Samuel Putnam, 57, author (Marguerite of Navarre, Marvelous Journey), translator, ex-Communist (he quit in 1944 after eight years of "misguided humility"); of a heart attack; in Lambertville, N.J. Translator of some 50 French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian works, he capped his career last year with an exemplary version of Don Quixote...