Word: denly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slugs, Slugs, Slugs. At first Leverone felt like a pullet plunging into a weasel den. A Dartmouth graduate ('06, Phi Beta Kappa) and a successful real-estate operator who was also secretary of Chicago's Crime Commission, he found a business controlled by sharpers and racketeers; chewing-gum sticks were cut in half, sold for a penny apiece; undersized chocolate bars cost a nickel; peanuts costing 8? per Ib. dribbled out at the rate of six per penny. And when the machines ran out of merchandise, they returned nothing but a hollow, insulting clank. Leverone hired an engineer...
...Card for Drew. Thus fortified, Benson endures violent criticism with the demeanor of a Boy Scout leader (which he is) in a den of noisy cubs. He also turns the other cheek: last Christmas, he took pains to send a card to one of his most vitriolic critics, Columnist Drew Pearson, whom he studiously skips in reading the newspaper...
Minute later two blackbooted city cops turn up. Hampton looked big, now looks small. Cops grab him. One each arm. Goes quietly. Band watches, bemused. Nobody else wants to jump into Lionel's den. Audience shocked. Screams and catcalls. Some laughter...
...result, Rubens returned to Antwerp aged 31 in 1608, both a skilled courtier, versed in eight languages, and a master artist with the whole repertory of Renaissance techniques at his fingertips. In drawings such as his sketch for Daniel in the Lions' Den (left), he proved that he could infuse into classical and Biblical themes a new verve and power distinctively his own. Respectably married to the pretty daughter of a conservative Antwerp lawyer, and appointed court painter to the sovereigns of the Spanish Netherlands. Rubens so prospered that he finally complained to a friend: "To tell the truth...
...believe, is rigged by a bunch of gyp-artists. First off, there are the critics, "death-or-drivel boys gunning with their gab from their pillboxes . . . those who take a step forward to enthrone imagination in the theatre and make it more of a temple and less of a den of thieves." Actors are bad actors: "They talk as themselves, dress as themselves, move about as themselves, and feel to be themselves. They are one-finger composers of the music of life...