Word: angells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traipsed from room to room, occasionally spotting a familiar picture ("Look, a Benton!"), noticing that U.S. art owed as much as theirs to French influence. The Argentines too liked Eugene Speicher's polished portraits. Art and amity were equally served by Bellows' painting of Luis Angel Firpo knocking Dempsey out of the ring. The critics, suave and gracious in the Argentine tradition, contented themselves with polite praise in sonorous Castilian...
Bummy Davis, who used to be one of the toughest kids in Brooklyn's notoriously tough Brownsville section, had punched his way into the big time with a lambasting left hook. Bash-nosed Fritzie Zivic, youngest of Pittsburgh's five "Fighting Zivics," is no angel either. Teethed on a fighter's mouthpiece, he learned all the tricks of the family trade before his voice changed, picked up a few more during some 200 professional prizefights...
...rayon plant as an experiment, discovered that American Viscose, Du Pont and Industrial Rayon were hard on newcomers, shut their plant in 1939. The machinery has been for sale ever since. Naselli bought it with money raised in Mexico, last week had men dismantling it for removal to San Angel, suburb of Mexico City. By mid-1943, says he, its production will be expanded to 6,000,000 lb., enough to make Mexico virtually self-sufficient in rayon...
Escapists. In Brooklyn, Angel Hernandez climbed the 200-foot tower of Manhattan Bridge, lay down and stayed. "I just wanted a little peace and quiet," he told police. At Fort Lewis, Wash., Private Kenneth Wilkinson saw his 245th feature-length movie since his enlistment last October. His explanation: "They make me forget my troubles...
...best Technicolor job out of Hollywood to date. But paint is no substitute for dramatic action. Out of the tiresome rhetoric, the pretty posturing of Blood and Sand only the bullfight scenes stand out. One of them is magnificent: a little Mexican boy named Jesús Angel, clad in a breech clout, armed solely with a white horse blanket, hazing a big black bull around a practice plaza de toros in the moonlight...