Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like Rousseau paintings, reproduced them in life-sized scenes with the help of rag-doll manikins, props of paper, cloth and wood. Window Dresser Buckley made each window represent a phase in the life of a woman. Rousseau's Portrait of a Young Girl, bloatedly enlarged, became "Her Awkward Age"; his Sleeping Gypsy, complete with mandolin and prowling lion, "Her Bohemian Period." Unlike previous art-conscious window displays, Buckley's contained no merchandise. Sole exception: a limp corset which dangled from the raggy hand of a baggily nude Eve (see cut). Its caption: "Her Subconscious Self...
Author Wolfe believes that Stalin signed the Moscow Pact with Oriental cunning. Others who read this book after the Nazi knockout of France may believe instead that the Red Army has become the Reichswehr's vast awkward squad, Russia itself a Nazi economic dependency. But last week, as the Red Army overran Bucovina and Bessarabia while Hitler gazed benevolently in other directions, it looked as if Prophet Wolfe might be right again, at least for a little while...
Dominion press contributed to waning Canadian complacency. It played small such awkward items as that one Leonard Franceschini, an Italian naturalized a Canadian but considered Fascist, has been one of the Dominion's most successful war-order getters. As the ubiquitous president of the Dufferin Paving & Crushed Stone, Ltd., Franceschini last January got a $3,500,000 Government order to build mosquito boats and in February a $2,000.000 order to turn out shell casings. Three days after Italy entered the war Franceschini was arrested, interned. Government custodians are now trying to run the plants this suspect fifth columnist...
...rather awkward at this time," said another type of Briton, "but it's really a good thing, you know. . . . There is an enemy we can beat...
Just take a statement like this, and an envelope like this, to any other addressing machine and notice that you must insert them both face down and will have to insert one of them in an awkward manner...