Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week the children along West 40th Street poked glumly among the refuse in a vacant lot across from the Mission and talked about the wonders of Father Norman's Christmas party. Most of the adults, too, felt dimly aggrieved. Said Thomas Phillips, a merchant seaman: "If this guy Norman stole, he stole from the rich to give to the poor-sort of a Robin Hood, you might say. He loaned me $50 once. We're all for him around here...
...smoking a cigaret now. Dr. Silvis said: "I put lipstick on him" - meaning that color had returned. He added an aside: "I think I'm going to save that guy." They had cut the private's clothes off. There was a cluster of guts as big as two fists sticking out of the left side of his abdomen, though the hole in the belly was thumb-sized...
...picture last night. . . . It catered to one of our most grievous needs: there were lovely American girls in it. But an uneasiness crept over us early. When the hero came out of the Canteen with Joan Leslie . . . and stood staring at the beautiful car likewise awaiting his pleasure, the guy sitting next to me called, "Watch out, buddy-it's a booby-trap...
...bands. Last week, with Washington's curfew on nightspots about to cut Manhattan's big bands off the air at the stroke of 12, the networks were combing the Midwest for late hour fill-ins. Some of the substitutions planned: Chris Cross (Denver) for Tommy Dorsey and Guy Lombardo; George Sterney (Cleveland) for Louis Armstrong; George Hamilton (St. Louis) for George Olsen and Leo Reisman; Boyd Raeburn (Chicago) for Tony Pastor...
...semi-primitive work of Francis Guy and the smoother canvases of 163 other 19th-Century landscape painters are currently filling nine large galleries at Chicago's Art Institute. The show goes to show that U.S. landscape painting got off to a slow, painful start. Painter Guy was a determined, self-taught man, who began by tracing his first landscapes on a piece of gauze stretched across the window frame of a tent. But potential art buyers of his time were bored by landscapes: they liked only two kinds of art: portraits and historical paintings. Guy died several years before...