Word: fellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handed Franklin Roosevelt his 101 delegates and assured his nomination, the late Will Rogers, who had stumped for Garner, came to Timmons and growled: "I've been neutral all my life . . . and the first time I come out for a man he throws his strength to a fellow with a Harvard accent. No good can come to a Texan who does a thing like that...
...relations with Roosevelt he said: "Even when the going was toughest I determined not to have a rupture with the President. . . . Sometimes you could persuade him. He was a charming fellow. . . . But he was a hard man to have an understanding with. He would deviate from the understanding...
...enlarged the head of the desperate man in the rear of the car (see cut). "That man wants to get out," Koerner says. "People would think he was crazy. But what about the woman across the aisle, who needs to be looked at and yet hates it, or that fellow playing solitaire? Maybe they are the crazy ones...
...Press, Sloan, like Fellow Draftsmen Glackens and Shinn, sketched the fires, suicides and parades which news photographers cover today. Of necessity they learned to select story-telling details and to set them down recognizably and fast. Later, under the leadership of Painter Robert Henri, they did much the same thing in oils, and dared to call it art. That threw the academic art world of the day into a righteous rage. Henri's group became the "Ashcan School," hooted at by almost everyone...
...composer himself, who at 34 looks like an overworked undergraduate, will not be in the audience when the Met's gold curtains part this week. He will be off on a concert tour of Italy and Holland. A shy fellow, but sure of himself, Britten wasn't worried about how Peter Grimes would fare in Manhattan. Since London first heard Peter Grimes at Sadler's Wells in June 1945, it has been cheered 115 times, in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Milan, Berlin, Budapest, translated into eight languages, and praised in all of them...