Word: wintrye
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The critics greeted Gunn's latest effort with wintry disdain. But the public found his royal portrait even more of an attraction than Winston Churchill's four cheerfully unskilled contributions to the R.A. show. Gunn's work is nothing if not skilled, and it is as sumptuous...
One wintry day in 1939, a short, thick-chested man who said he was a mechanic and looked as if he might be, signed the register at Istanbul's Continental Hotel as Spiridon Yanko Mekas. Mekas, who had just returned from Moscow on a Canadian passport, loafed around the...
But Richard Austen Butler. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, misses no point. If an opposition speaker misstates what he said, Rab is quickly on his feet to set the record straight in his clear, flat voice. If goaded, his reply is quick and effective. Hugh Gaitskell, Labor'...
One night last week, the renegades gathered around a tiny stove in their barracks, sang Communist songs in competition with the whine of a wintry wind outside, joked, laughed and gulped down rice wine by the tin-cupful. Among these New Year's Eve celebrants was Claude Batchelor. He...
The Hive tells no story. It "sets out to be ... a slice of life told step by step," and consists of short sketches, most of them only a page or so in length. Out of these hundreds of fragments, a world takes shape, peopled, according to the author's...