Word: blushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Becomes a blush, as the long story ends In sorry separation at Bordeaux...
...whose potent brutality has shocked the prissy, angered the academic and given him the biggest headlines of any contemporary artist. Last year Sculptor Epstein produced his latest shocker, a three-ton, seven-foot, simian statue of Adam in pinkish alabaster, whose bull-bold virility made pulpits seethe, strong men blush and the public flock to look (TIME, June 19 et seq.). Exhibited by an enterprising purchaser as a side show at the English summer resort of Blackpool, Adam grossed some $250,000 from drop-jawed vacationists...
...Street's Fine Arts Galleries, at 50? a peek. All indications were that, as a come-on curiosity, Adam might run a close second to John Wilkes Booth's mummy or the Cardiff giant. Said a weary gallery attendant: "It's enough to make a fella blush." "I don't know why Eve fell for that guy," muttered one observer. "My dear young woman," retorted a nearby dowager, "she had no choice...
This week the speculative blush in paper and foods had spread to sugar and shipping stocks, but without developing a very high color. For U. S. business was as bewildered by the turn of events as any Norwegian soldier. One thing was certain: the U. S. had lost an export market. And none pulled out of it faster than Moore-McCormack Lines, No. 1 U. S.-to-Scandinavia ship-operator. Day of Blitzkrieg's beginning, Moore-McCormack got busy on the radio. To Mormacstar and Mormactide, far out in the Atlantic, Scandinavia-bound, went orders to [ turn about, keep...
...small irons, and they hardly glow") he tells no less serenely. "I have followed the septuagenarian of literature step by step, and reported the progress of his disintegration." He ends his book with a quiet, magnificent diatribe which should make most readers duck, most smug old men-of-letters blush...