Word: hatpin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unintimidated, League headquarters in Johannesburg dispatched ten cars and two airplanes full of Black Sashers to reinforce their embattled sisters in Bloemfontein. "From now on, I will carry a good long hatpin with me, and I am not beyond jabbing somebody with it," said one outraged lady...
...either candidate as angry as he sounded? Probably not. The spirit of professional wrestling seemed to have entered New York politics. Gentleman Ives and Gentleman Harriman were grimacing as if they feared Hatpin Mary would jab them if they relaxed...
Finished last June, the painting was the core of an exhibition at Manhattan's Alan Gallery last week. Levine had crammed it with hatpin-sharp caricatures, all bathed in a rich and suitably waxen light. His nervous, flickering brushwork brought every inch of the canvas to life, and created an illusion of space filled not only with figures but with air, odors and heavy thoughts. Levine's message to his fellow man was no longer propagandistic, but moral. Gangster Funeral may, like Hogarth's Gin Lane and Lautrec's Elles, live far beyond the age that...
...Rube! In Palisades Amusement Park, N J., after he had paid off ten kewpie dolls, four Teddy bears and a set of china to a wondrously successful dart thrower, Concessionaire Joe Weissman investigated, found the marksman's confederate behind the backdrop with a long hatpin...
This was hardly over before the President got a hatpin-sized jab from a new di rection: the deadpan announcement from the railway unions that they proposed to strike, after he had just been assured that they would not. At his press conference next day, the President seemed to be seething with repressed indignation against the union leaders...