Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stevenson adviser. "That s.o.b. is sitting right there in Truman's lap." All the Stevenson hopes were placed on Truman's Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman, whose political judgment Truman had always trusted. Chapman walked into Truman's suite, saw Sam Rosenman sitting there, dug an elbow deep in Rosenman's heavily larded ribs, and snapped: "Get out of here, Sam. I want to talk to the President." But by the time Chapman left, he knew Stevenson's jig was up as far as Truman was concerned...
...gods of Hindustan-Hallo, Mary! For you really cannot get away from Her . . . She favours Brother Bernardo with special revelations and smiles at his delighted 'Hallo, Mary!' When I write a play like The Simpleton and have to deal with divinity in it She jogs my elbow at the right moment and whispers 'Now Brother B. don't forget...
...color and modeling from his elders in Boston's portrait-painting fraternity. But he soon found he could go farther by paying scant attention to the modes and strict attention to his models. He thought nothing of spending 100 hours on a portrait, advanced as much by elbow grease as by genius. Early in his career he reached a pedestrian conclusion that lent wings to his art: he decided that his paintings were "almost always good in proportion to the time I give them, provided I have a subject that is picturesque." As John Adams wrote of Copley...
Bail-Out. In Oakland, Calif., after an argument in their car which his wife was driving 35 m.p.h. down a deserted road, Edward Freitas announced, "I'm getting out right now," and did, was found unconscious by the road and hospitalized with broken ribs, a fractured elbow and head injuries...
Like most of Gilbert's plots, the Mikado is filled with strange twists and stranger characters. There is the wandering minstrel who is actually of the royalty, the old maid with an "irresistable right elbow," the axeman who can't stand the thought of head-chopping, and the bureaucrat who fills most every job in town, including officially checking up on his own corruption. This fellow, the Lord High Everything, is the best of the show, delightfully played by Thomas Whitbread. He is perfectly pompous, and his gift of timing makes even mundane lines amusing...