Word: venus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pravda, Red Star, Izvestia, Komsomolskaya Pravda. They get their stories reviewed by Russia's sharp censors, then they race to the cable office. For a time Reuters' Harold King had the edge because he hired a motorcyclist. Nowadays U.P. and A.P., employing two fawn-fast girl runners, Venus and Zena, usually win. But mere speed is not enough for the real scoops. They come as reward, or as lightning surprise...
...story of cold, glittery Amanda, an ambitious historical novelist, and Julian, the cold, glittery millionaire publisher whom she lures to a marriage bed with no more than "her usual annoyance at the damage to her permanent." It is also the story of ever-maudlin Ken, a kind of tame Venus's-flytrap, whom Amanda keeps around less for biological than for decorative reasons. Ken might have gone on being a tame cat indefinitely but for a quiet little country mouse named Vicky ("I like furniture and houses all warm and used and kind"), who gobbled him up when Amanda...
...that this country has the worst record for bigamy of any European nation." The Daily Herald reported it was not drunkenness, but love, which caused men to talk and write of impending military operations; the Herald prayed for an artist who would draw "Cupid with a grinning skull and Venus in black mourning...
...ivory, jades and jewelry have gone into bank vaults. A carefully chosen 2% of the museum's remaining 500,000 treasures have been trucked to the country hideaway. Gone are the Altman and most of the Morgan collections, the Van Eycks and other Flemish Primitives, Rubens' bulky Venus and Adonis, the museum's most famous El Greco, View of Toledo...
...Lowell House Musical Society, which for the past four years has specialized in resurrecting forgotten masterpieces of English opera like Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" and "King Arthur," Handel's "Acis and Galatea," and Blow's "Venus and Adonis," has struck out on a new path this year. It has chosen to do perhaps the one thing better than reviving an old masterpiece, and that is to introduce a new one. For if Randall Thompson's "Solomon and Balkis" is not quite a masterpiece, it is the nearest thing to it the American opera has seen yet. That the Musical...