The Only Use of
comet
in
The Fountainhead
- Across the aisle, celebrities formed a comet: from the small point of Ellsworth Toohey, well in front, a tail of popular names stretched through the crowd: Lois Cook, Gordon L. Prescott, Gus Webb, Lancelot Clokey, Ike, Jules Fougler, Sally Brent, Homer Slottern, Mitchell Layton.†
Chpt 4.18
Definition:
a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit