Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marquet and Henri Matisse were art students in Paris, they used to load their canvases into the same pushcart, hopefully trundle them off to the Autumn Salon. On one return trip, no canvases sold, Marquet lamented, "If only a bus would crash into our pushcart, we could at least collect the damages." Matisse soon trundled his own brilliant, revolutionary canvases into the front ranks of modern French art. Marquet settled down to painting workmanlike studies of boat-filled harbors and rivers, lagged far behind. He died in 1947, at 72, little known outside his native France...
...write-for him. "Winchell's 'gossip' ... is primarily the edited product of diligent, harassed press-agents who give him first choice on all evil that they see, hear or overhear-and some of the good, if it involves their own clients . . . The dividends are indirect; they collect proportionately from their clients for the touch of immortality that goes with the expression: 'He's close to Winchell.'" And, added the Post, they live in unholy terror that they will lose that touch...
After he started working here, Macrae discovered that "the vast mass of research that goes into a TIME story, especially a cover story, simply staggers anybody coming into the organization from outside. For a cover story, as much material is gathered as some biographers in England would collect for a full-length biography...
...side, soon feels more kinship with their sleek, black, shiny forms than he has ever felt with humans. Nearing shore, man and seals edge up on some rocks to rest. On shore, a bored young miss with a high-powered rifle is waiting to pot the seals and collect a new thrill. Two shots crack, but the Negro hears only the first, because "his head had caved in ... And so it was true and doubly true that what the soothsayer had said was sooth...
...Cross expects to collect another 400 pints tomorrow, according to Philip Levin '53, one of the drive chairmen...