Word: gait
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until last week, museums were generally unkind to Thomas Hart Benton and Benton was unkind to museums. They resemble graveyards, he remarked ten years ago, "run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait . . . Nobody goes to museums. I'd like to sell [my paintings] to saloons...
...ruthless German blitz of undefended Belgrade, before Hitler had turned on Russia, he writes: "Out of the nightmare of smoke and fire came the maddened animals released from their shattered cages in the zoological gardens ... A bear, dazed and uncomprehending, shuffled through the inferno with slow and awkward gait down towards the Danube. He was not the only bear who did not understand...
What airs in dress an' gait...
...reliable as the appearance of the first robin. Under U.S. regulations prostitutes are outlawed, but Tokyo's brothels, thinly disguised as "teahouses," still cater to an average of 500 customers nightly. Last week, each leaning on an attendant and trying her best to walk in the traditional graceful gait of her calling, under the weight of a 6-lb. wig and suffocatingly embroidered antique costume, two of Tokyo's leading "waitresses" led a regiment of lantern-bearers, bell-ringers, apprentice prostitutes and child attendants through the ancient three-hour procession. "We're certainly not trying to revive...
Intent Man. At 53, Forrest Sherman is the youngest man (and first career airman) to be Chief of Naval Operations. A stocky man (5 ft. 9 in., 168 Ibs.) with a rolling, pigeon-toed gait, he has none of the traditional sea dog's look of shaggy-browed sternness. His smile is quick, friendly but curiously remote. His eyes appraise impersonally without open -approval or rancor, like the eyes of an airman inspecting an engine. Always, he keeps an air of detachment...