Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...David. Other outstanding items in the show: a brilliant portrait of Poet Charles Henri Ford with its exquisite hands; an original gouache of Helena Rubinstein, her face covered in sequins and lighted from the front by a splash of phosphorus; a colossal Phenomena, a hodgepodge of bodies with the focus on feet and midsections, which stunned New York and London...
...evening when Diana Barrymore was 19, and the youngest, most submerged guest at a sedate dinner, she was suddenly observed to be eating her soup from a standing position. It wasn't a stunt; it was a natural and innocent way of bringing the gathering into proper focus. Father John Barrymore and Mother Michael Strange were divorced when Diana was seven. From seven to twelve she was entombed in a Parisian convent school. She subsequently attended the Garrison-Forest School near Baltimore, which nearly went out of business once when Father John paid her a call. She also...
...millions of U.S. eyes & ears focus on the approaching World Series, the plaguey question is: Will there be baseball next year? After six more grinding winter months of war, will ball parks bloom in the spring again...
Everlasting and Permanent. The Black Death reached the U.S. in another great eruption (1892-1902). It began around the primary plague focus in China's Yunnan (Burma Road) Province, spread to India and seaports all over the globe. Some 12,000,000 people died in India alone. In 1900 it reached San Francisco, probably via ship-borne rats from Honolulu. Within the next two years some 113 persons (mostly Chinese) are known to have died in San Francisco of plague...
...dreamlike confusion of the Rubber Scandal, two new faces swam into focus last week. The New York Times reported flatly one morning that Franklin Roosevelt had asked Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone of the U.S. Supreme Court to make an investigation and give the nation the facts. Justice Stone's picture hovered momentarily on the front page, then dissolved into vapor. President Roosevelt had talked to him-but not about an investigation...