Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After their head lama died in 1883, the monks of the Buddhist lamasery of Naribanchin Sume in Outer Mongolia went to work at once. Their most urgent task, after the ceremonies of death were carried out, was to find his successor, a hutukhtu ("Living Buddha...
When fire destroyed her home in a Chicago suburb, 14-year-old Roberta Lee Mason rescued four brothers & sisters. But she was burned so badly that she had to be swathed in bandages from head to foot. Her throat-catching picture (TIME, Feb. 28) made front pages across the U.S. Soon money, clothes, even chewing gum began to pour in; everybody wanted to "do something for Roberta." But what the Masons needed was a new house...
...Florentine Verrocchio is best known for his enormous and powerful equestrian statue of the hawk-faced Renaissance condottiere, Bartolommeo Colleoni, in Venice, and his elegant bronze figure of David astride Goliath's head; also for the fact that he was Leonardo da Vinci's first teacher and was said to have turned from painting to sculpture when his precocious pupil surpassed...
Academy President (and horse-painter) Sir Alfred Munnings galloped to the defense of the Academy by attacking modernism : "The director of the Tate may be able to tell us why a painting of a head with two noses is better than the landlady's favorite The Bath of Psyche, by Lord Leighton." Old folks generally liked the paintings, too. Said one blackstocking: "They remind me of my youth. Besides, I know what the subject is meant to be. Can't do that with pictures nowadays." Said another: "So frightfully British . . . and I do love the cows...
...year, Joe Louis' friends had been telling him it was time to quit. Joe just scratched his head (balding on top) and kept everybody guessing. Then he discovered a way of leaving the ring the way he came into it-with a bang-and without saying goodbye...