Word: papier
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Candidate Frank Gannett saved the day by importing three live elephants, marched them incessantly through the streets. Senator Robert A. Taft also had elephants (of papier-mache): one in the quiet dignity of his ballroom headquarters at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, two perched on the marquee outside. Candidate Taft also had 100 rooms for his staff and the support of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who said, in her best Alice-blue style, "The Willkie campaign comes right from the grass roots of every country club in America...
...gaudy first-act curtain by shooting the fiance of the King's only daughter. Before the hoopla has subsided, Mazeppa, traditionally played by a curve-some female, has been tied to a "fiery Tartarian steed." headed precipitously away from the lone Polish prairie. Enacted in Suffern by the papier-mache horse used by the Lunts in their Taming of the Shrew, the role of the high-tempered stallion is reduced to comic relief. But riding one of his flesh-&-blood predecessors back in the 1860s, Adah Isaacs Menken, most celebrated Mazeppa of them all, was bruised on many occasions...
...hundred and twenty-five delegates slept in the city jail. Democrats carried a big banner saying ROOSEVELT AGAIN, AGAIN AND AGAIN. Liberal-Independents had as their official emblem a giraffe, "because it sticks its neck out." At the height of the Republican convention, a huge papier-mâché-headed elephant opened up and out tumbled a bevy of college girls...
...crest of Chungking hill-where one bloody day last May 200 Chinese were bombed to death because they thought they would be safe from air attack if they hid under trees and bushes -a gay new game was being played last week. It was called "Get the Traitors." Five papier-mâché puppet heads were arranged on the ground. Each represented a Chinese who had sold out to the Japanese. Several paces away laughing Chungking citizens lined up for chances, at 5? a throw, to try to ring the heads with evergreen wreaths. Whoever succeeded in "crowning...
Many of Richard Wagner's heroes (Siegmund, Siegfried) are huntsmen. Hunter Siegfried begins his career by bringing in a live bear, earns his spurs hunting a 20-foot, papier-mache, steam-spouting dragon, ends up by getting hunted himself and being carried home on his shield like a dead stag...