Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best part of the meet ought to be the saber event. Last year's captain. John Gay, returned from a vacation in Maine last month and has spent most of his time practicing in the Indoor Athletic Building. A real slam-bang artist, Gay will fence as number one man in sabers...
Hello, Gang. For a while, in the '20s, she haunted New York theatrical agencies. In 1927 she was arrested for pretending to attempt suicide on a Philadelphia bridge- apublicity hoax to advertise a sleazy movie about unwed mothers. She was an artist's model in Paris in 1928, a dressmaker's assistant in Algiers in 1933. When the war broke out she was teaching English in Berlin; she was soon broadcasting in English on the German radio...
Landscapes in G. Initial letters swelled to full-page size and came to enclose miniature paintings sometimes as detailed as murals. Within one huge blue and rose G, an artist had drawn St. Francis kneeling to receive the stigmata (see cut). Gradually the illustrations were separated from the text, and sometimes they almost supplanted it-so that bumpkin barons and illiterate lords could "read" their books like comic strips. They had no trouble identifying each character; the beasts were beastly, the saints saintly, and the maidens maidenly...
...eight aliases, with a 20-year criminal record studded with seven arrests (forgery, robbery, grand larceny, theft of Government property) and four convictions for theft, forgery, and fraud. A four-time loser, he was on parole from the federal prison at Atlanta, and was an "accomplished shakedown artist." What was Hearst going to do about...
Your frigidly Olympian approach to L'affaire Gieseking plus your naive conclusion that free societies have correctly decided that an "artist's" work and politics may be divorced surprises me, (a recent ed-man), very much...