Word: capes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Carnegie's judges had voted $1,000 first prize to Cape Cod Abstractionist Karl Knaths for a knotty grey-green what-is-it entitled Gear (TIME, Oct. 21). But when the gallerygoers' ballots were all in, they had voted, as they did in 1944, for conservative Cox. Cox's highly stylized brand of the bucolic-a plush wheat field under an exploding cloud-had the same kind of crowd appeal as the seascapes of the late Frederick J. Waugh (Waugh won the Carnegie popularity prize five years running...
...suburban Douglaston, L.I., Grosz has made a moderately successful effort to amass the Almighty Dollar. "Money is no fraud," says he; "ideas, on the contrary, can be more or less deceptive." Grosz packed away his worst memories as soon as he got off the boat; took to painting Cape Cod sand dunes and plump, salable nudes like the one who has been haunting him since boyhood. For a whue he even tried illustrating for Esquire. On off days Grosz still occupies himself with elaborate horror pictures, but now there is almost an old-fashioned air about them...
...wonder with the cape and the muleta, standing immovable, close to the bull, forcing the bull to charge between him and the barrier-a very dangerous trick. Because of his daring the bulls have ripped his skintight pants in every fight so far, have often tossed him in the air though never gored him. (He thriftily rents his suits for $50 for each performance instead of buying them for $600.) His greatest flaw: he was not clean or quick enough at the kill...
Under the assumed name of John Christy Moran, "a combination of my uncle's name and Aunt Mary Anne's" he was holding down a Cape Cod cranberry bog when he recognized his picture in a Boston paper under a $1000 reward caption last Saturday. His real name and old associations flashed back to him, and he quickly telegraphed his parents from an Orleans drug store...
...shipping and supply contact either with the home isles or, in dreaded necessity, with a refugee government in Canada. From Nigeria the girdle could reach east to Kenya, along any of several possible roads, absorb a string of World War II airbases, make a junction with the north-south Cape Town trunk road...