Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noble' and 'courage,' and I spent most of my time scribbling them down." Later, as a recognized poet on a lecture tour in California, he was more explicit: "I know when I have a poem the same way a hen knows she has an egg." When he visited a friend in Kentucky, a startled observer reported: "In the first twenty-four hours the poet was seen to rescue several toads from wells into which they had stumbled; to feed from a bottle the runt pig of a large litter; to rub noses with a calf...
...month and a half brushing in each grass blade separately "to make it come toward you, that surge of earth." Perfectionist though he is, Wyeth does not aim to please. The warmth, charm and dazzle of color are foreign to him; so are rhythmic arabesques of line. Using egg tempera and tiny brushes, he paints mostly with dull browns, greys and blacks, composes his pictures to create a deathly sense of stillness and balance rather than of flow...
Having fallen flat on his face last Nov. 7 when he failed to produce enough Chicago votes to re-elect Scott Lucas to the United States Senate, egg-bald, ulcer-plagued little Jake Arvey made good his threat to resign as boss of the Cook County Democratic organization. He did it, he said, "for reasons of health." To make him feel better, Democratic leaders promised him the job of Illinois National Committeeman, which has been vacant since Boss Ed Kelly died...
Obsolete Pilots. Nevertheless, Kindelberger thinks the piloted airplane itself is rapidly heading toward obsolescence as a military weapon; he regards the guided missile as the freshest egg in the basket and believes that North American is its leading mother hen. At the Government's test site at Alamogordo, N. Mex., North American's "NATIV" (North American Test Instrument Vehicle) has soared ten miles high at supersonic speeds. His aerophysics laboratory at Downey, Calif, is ready for actual production of missiles controlled from ground to ground...
Never a Dull Moment (RKO Radio) tries to hatch another Egg and I, merely lays an egg. The picture marries off a fashionable Broadway songwriter (Irene Dunne) to a rodeo cowboy (Fred MacMurray) and plunges her into the soul-testing pratfalls of housekeeping on his ramshackle ranch...