Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best nude in the Clay Club show-a pink marble La Victoire-was done by 43-year-old Burr Miller, who was once intercollegiate wrestling champion at Yale. "You have to chisel down to the skin," explained ex-Wrestler Miller, cupping his square hands, "and not a fraction farther...
Those who know Wenner-Gren did not expect him to remain a telephone king very long; he is well aware that such companies are easy targets for expropriation. But the deal helped him get part of his fortune out of Sweden. After he had done that, he could sell his holdings in the merged company, and use the cash to expand his less vulnerable Mexican ventures...
...minimum to their employers and their conscience as craftsmen. Supporting players are given to lines like "Yon storm'll be upon us main soon."*Others merely curtsy, mew incoherently or tug their forelocks. For what it is worth-a middling curdler-the whole thing was much better done in 1937 by Basil Rathbone and Ann Harding...
...done for other fields what Van Wyck Brooks did for New England letters. No one has written a comparable flowering of American industry, or of American military or naval life. It may be that such works will never be written, that the American achievement in other spheres has been too diversified and chaotic, its conflicts too bitter, its heroes too narrow...
...strength of Wolfe's novels lies in their deep and loving evocation of significant segments of U.S. life; Thomas Wolfe's "image is the great national myth, the American Dream." No one else has so vividly rendered the inner tensions of ordinary, unintellectual small-town Americans-and done so in the traditional rolling phrases of the American declamatory style which Wolfe inherited from Whitman and Melville...