Word: stricting
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...rare moments of freedom from the strict regimen come, strangely, at the table. Breakfast-eaten usually in state-subsidized clubs or officers' messes-is a souped-up repast of coffee, rolls and hefty portions of eggs and ham. Lunch provides plenty of soup, meat and vegetables, topped off with the sweet desserts, e.g., palaczinta, so popular in Hungary. Suppers are generally light, but no one frowns on wines or beer. "We don't like our athletes to be ascetic," says Sir. "It doesn't go with the Hungarian character...
...legend of Victorian domestic virtue and strict private morals was literally a fiction. Pearl suggests. Dickens, the prose laureate of the era, and Trollope, who boasted that "no girl has risen from the reading of my pages less modest than she was before,'' handed down a false moral portrait of the Victorian middle and upper classes which has persisted to this day. They were abetted. Pearl argues, by biographers and historians who "suppressed and distorted shamefully," in a "conspiracy against truth...
...able, ambitious and responsible student" can get through Harvard, regardless of his family income. Nevertheless it seems that somewhat more ability, ambition, and responsibility are required to get through Harvard if one is insolvent than if one is the son of an oil baron. Although the rules are not strict, and the scholarship scions consider each case individually, the minimum standard of performance for a scholarship holder is normally Group IV, while the minimum for a non-scholarship student is Group...
...Hattie stirred up the natives with equal success. Wealthy women and celebrities flocked to her salon (among her clientele: Gertrude Lawrence, Clare Boothe Luce, Barbara Hutton, the Duchess of Windsor, Joan Crawford). Although several famed designers learned their craft in her workrooms, Hattie was never a designer in the strict sense. Her talent was for blue-penciling gowns, like an editor, and her critical decisions ("No, no, that sleeve is out I") were almost always right. The Carnegie foundation for a wardrobe-the "little Carnegie suit" became a basic garment for well-dressed women, and was later translated by Hattie...
...endearing qualities. One of the Beaver's newsmen urgently needed ?1,000, the biographer recounted. He asked Beaverbrook if he could borrow the sum and repay it out of salary. Next day the general manager summoned the journalist and told him that there was a strict office rule against such advances. "But," he added, "Lord Beaverbrook has instructed me to make you a free gift of ?1,000. Here is a check." Biographer Driberg praised this act of kindness for the unidentified newsman. Footnoted the Beaver dryly: "Mr. Driberg was the employee concerned...