Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...royal visitors, and the Asiatic envoys outdid one another in their efforts to entertain the maharaja royally. As usual. Ambassador Ali came out ahead, with an elaborate garden party celebrating the maharaja's 43rd birthday. In the garden behind the receiving line he thoughtfully installed an attic fan. to cool the royal rear. The maharani gamely learned to dance the Cha Cha Cha, while her husband consumed four bottles of champagne and discoursed on the fine points of pigsticking. When the turbaned waiters brought out a large pink and white birthday cake, the band struck up "Happy Birthday...
Oleg, a writer's son, grew up in a sheltered city home. His parents were silently opposed to the Communist regime, but at school Oleg became a fanatic young Pioneer and an ardent Stalin fan. As he grew older, his parents gradually opened his eyes. Despite his new doubts Oleg said later: "I wanted to believe...
...Occasional Man (Billy May's orchestra and Ella Mae Morse; Capitol). A pleasant hot-weather oddity from the film, The Girl Rush. Singer Morse muses of her favorite island in the Pacific where there is "sun to tan me, palms to fan me," etc., plus, obviously, an occasional...
...poor Czech goldsmith, Kokoschka once made a living decorating fans. He has spent the major part of his life in opposition to the painstaking and delicacy required for goldsmithing and fan-painting; to him emotion is all. Kokoschka early learned to squint at the world through thick, hot lenses of feeling and to say what he saw in fat, turbulent strokes of brilliant color. Hitler called him the most degenerate painter; the free world found him an apostle of artistic freedom. No modern artist except Picasso (whom he affects to despise) has staged more lavishly dramatic impromptus on canvas. Kokoschka...
...wartime layoff, during which he served as an infantryman in the French army, Urruty went home to concentrate on pelota. By then he could whip all comers. Once one of his ardent admirers presented him with a big cigar. Deeply honored, Urruty returned the compliment. He gave his fan, Sir Winston Churchill, a chistera as a souvenir...