Word: bosomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approving audience of Y.M.C.A. members heard New Jersey's handsome bachelor Governor Robert B. Meyner, 46, trace the problem of juvenile delinquency down to some unattractive roots. "The modern ideal of feminine perfection," said Democrat Meyner, "seems to be a punk actress with platinum hair and an overstuffed bosom. The ideal of manhood is a character who toots a horn and smokes marijuana." The governor's battle cry: "What we need are fewer Aly Khans and [Porfirio] Rubirosas and more Daniel Boones and Horatio Algers...
...sweet it is to be in Chairman Mao's bosom...
...were even greater than Whistler's: John Singer Sargent. John learned from both and came to paint personalities just as brilliantly, charmingly, and revealingly as his masters had. Delineating the mind-heavy brow of G. B. Shaw (opposite), John's brush is icicle-sharp. Gliding across the bosom of the Marchesa Casati (overleaf), it turns feather-soft. He naturally places his technique at the service of his subject matter, and this instinct, which most modern painters scorn, is the first essential of portraiture...
...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...
...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...