Word: framed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first things Pastor Vega did was to apply to the Episcopal Church for affiliation-independent of that church's Mexican mission district across the border. Next, he built a new church-a simple white frame building with bright wall paper and gold altar hangings. Then he turned his attention to the children. He took over an abandoned restaurant and turned it into a nursery school. There, three-to seven-year-olds learn English to prepare for regular schooling later...
Pancake on Legs. Ernst Wollweber spent the last years of the war in Russia. In 1946, he came back to Germany and stepped into his seemingly legitimate job in the Ministry of Transport. He has a glowing bald spot, and his once rugged frame has grown so fat and flabby that his staff refer to him covertly in the Berlin dialect as "Pfannkuchen uff Beene"-pancake on legs. But inside, as the West is learning to its discomfort, Ernst Wollweber is still the tough and brutal plotter, still a master of his craft. His diligent Red troublemakers and riot-prompters...
...Really Art? Although Maugham may have made a dressier screen appearance than Thurber presumably will (on Thurber's gaunt frame his expensive clothes give an unfurled effect), several ardent Thurberites have already pointed out that Maugham cannot draw. But, as the question has often been phrased in his home town, Columbus, Ohio: "Can Thurber, either?" For some time now, a psychiatrist has been writing Thurber, offering to cure him of his drawing...
Thomas Wolfe was only 37 when he died, but there had been nothing small-scale or quiet about the life he left behind. His 6 ft. 5½, 240 Ib. frame required massive feedings and guzzlings, and his stormy, undisciplined manuscripts were big enough to fill a crate. A natural wanderer, he was always on the prowl, and the area that fascinated him most was his own U.S.A...
...years, he stole $4,000,000, never once resorted to violence. He forged checks on a Turkish bank, grabbed ?70,000 worth of rough diamonds in South Africa, stole 700,000 francs worth of bonds from the Calais-Paris express, and once took a famous Gainsborough painting from its frame in a London dealer's gallery. Operating mainly in Europe, he stayed out of reach of the Pinkertons, was imprisoned only twice for petty thefts. During Worth's heyday, he and William Pinkerton frequently met in a fashionable London bar and developed a fond respect for each other...