Word: ann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foundation in use, soon grows distasteful, and needs continual replacement with something else." This maxim would sound serviceable to most modern designers of functional furniture. It was devised by devout, unlettered members of the communistic religious sect who called themselves Shakers. Kindled by the ardor of Ann Lee, a mystic Englishwoman who led a band of six men and two women to the U. S. in 1774, the Shakers took as their motto "Hands to work and hearts to God." They labored, shook away their sins, grew and flourished mainly in colonies in eastern New York and New England until...
...Ann Lee taught the Shakers to believe in a dual, male-female God and Christ-spirit, enjoined them to remain celibate. Sister and brother Shakers lived together as large "families," in communities headed by elders and elderesses of equal authority. Their large frame houses, in which the floors were divided to segregate men & women, still stand as marvels of pegged construction. They worshiped, with ritual marches, dances, gesticulations, in great meetinghouses. At a Shaker dance, brothers & sisters lined up facing each other, with palms upturned to receive God's blessings, singing songs like Shake Off the Flesh...
...Maugham, wife of the British author; Baron Maurice ("Momo") de Rothschild, soft, luxury-loving French representative of the famed international banking family; Mrs. Dorothy Round Little, British ten-nist, twice winner of the Wimbledon singles, and son; three waifish guests of J. Pierpont Morgan: George Harry Vivian Smith, 6, Ann Smith, 1, Lord Primrose, 11, son of the Earl of Rosebery; Lady Byng, widow of onetime Field Marshal Sir Julian Hedworth George Byng, World War I hero of Vimy Ridge. Said Lady Byng of the bombing of the British village in which she had lived: "It was a bit wearying...
Last month Burlesqueen Ann Corio made her debut as a legitimate actress at the Kenley Deer Lake Theatre on the outskirts of Pennsylvania's hard-coal district. Cast as "Princess Kalima," the hula dancer in The Barker (with silent cinema stars James Kirkwood and Lila Lee), the shapely stripper played her first legitimate role rather solemnly, moved many a simple miner with her earnest emoting. But more important than Miss Corio's acting was her success in combining drama with louse opera: she worked from conventional street dress in the first act to a G-string...
...less pious precincts this summer, Ann Corio will probably fall back on her burlesque routine. When she returns to burlesque in the fall, she will add a bit of variety to her act by breaking into a boastful ditty written by Tunesmith Edwin Gilbert especially for her: I was a Hit in Legit...