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...such as the same George Moore, affronted by a badly cooked omelette, summoning a policeman and saying sternly: "Go down and arrest [my cook] for obtaining money under false pretenses"). But most of the new material consists of Author Gogarty's telling a lot more stories about his bosom friend Dr. Gogarty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irishman in Exile | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...hands of angels, as being borne up to heaven by angels, etc.) But the Magdalene symbolism in The Confidential Clerk is visual and dramatic as well as verbal. In the first act of the play, Lucasta Angel enters wearing a dress with large red flowers at the bosom. Red is the symbol of love and the color which is associated with Mary Magdalene early in her career. Throughout the act, a gold spotlight is trained on Lucasta, which not only gives her hair the same golden hue as Mary Magdalene's was supposed to have, but which also symbolizes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT EXTENSION | 1/20/1954 | See Source »

...John Murray Anderson's Almanac), got off some mouthfuls between mouthfuls. On Englishmen as lovers: "The trouble with most of them is inbreeding-and eating all those Brussels sprouts." On a top-heavy Hollywood starlet: "It's amazing how far a girl can crawl on her bosom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 28, 1953 | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

Despite fresh educational ideas and expanded facilities at the university, the Brown man is worried that he is not accepted in the bosom of the Ivy. The Brown Daily Herald asks "Are We Ivy?" The administration feels Brown holds an unjustifiably low position on the Ivy fringe. Self-consciously the 190-year-old Providence university looks at the rest of the League with puppy-dog eyes and asks recognition for its new high academic standards...

Author: By John J. Iselin and Steven C. Swett, S | Title: Brown: Poor Relation of the Ivy League | 11/14/1953 | See Source »

...writer described them, "the pianoforte, the music box, the singing of birds; the elegant drapery . . . the struggling sunbeam peering through doors of stained glass . . ." But production was upped from a few pictures to thousands a day, partly because of a group of go-getting photographers nicknamed "blue bosom boys." (As in TV, they could not properly photograph white shirt fronts.) Then photography passed two major milestones: ¶ U.S. picture journalism began with Mathew Brady, who passionately took up photography at 16. A weak-eyed, blue-spectacled portrait photographer, he decided in 1861 to cover the Civil War ("A spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Two Billion Clicks | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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