Word: blokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reynolds painstakingly studies such bygone greats as Donatello and Poussin ("You never get to the end of a bloke like Poussin"), but at night he is his own master, stays up until the late hours painting & repainting his personal phantom world. His fantastic landscapes have the same wonderful eeriness as Graham Sutherland's thorny abstractions, but they are quieter, as delicately brushed as fine Japanese watercolors. In each he takes the ordinary sights of rural England, twists and molds them into subtle generalizations on nature...
...Cairo, Colombo and Singapore he flashed ready cash, picked up all tabs, made a host of new friends, and moved on to Sydney, Australia. There he registered (as Hall) in the leading hotel and began entertaining lavishly. "The pound-a-minute bloke," his new friends called him. To the more sympathetic of them, Norman occasionally showed a picture of his wife. "My darling Barbara," he would say, "she died ten months ago." Sydney's ladies gave their sympathies. One of them was only too happy to have her picture taken with Morton-Stewart at a fashionable nightclub. The picture...
...immigration inspector also went on board the Queen Mary. He reported the crew ready & willing to answer all questions. Said the captain about the inspector: "A splendid bloke . . . The men want to help him. It's to their advantage...
Perpetual Motion. In Brisbane, Australia, Edward Eugene Ebzery, jailed for the 588th time for drunkenness, philosophized: "A bloke's like a concertina-if he's not coming in he's coming...
...swear that everyone at Harvard has a cold," declared Edmond Tipping, Nieman Fellow from Melbourne, Australia. "There's so much coughing and sneezing at lectures you can hardly hear the bloke who's speaking. It must be the weather. In my country, the sun always shines...