Word: hems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assigned to each a meaning according to its direction or placement. But, as in Fire Wind (opposite), little more than the title is actually necessary to decipher a Klee painting. The red arrows indicate motion, in this case of wind feeding the fire, while the green arrows struggle to hem the flames in against the background darkness. She Howls, We Play uses lines that are a cross between wire sculpture and children's sidewalk scrawls; the figures might as well be cow with heifers as dog with pups. The message is the same: adult overconcern v. childhood unconcern...
...until Sickles was 93 that his troubles began to hem him in. He had lost $4,000,000 on Wall Street, and the sad fact was that he was $28,000 short in his accounts with the New York State Monuments Commission, which he headed. When eviction threatened, he hung three American flags out of his Fifth Avenue window and awaited the sheriff. He died broke at 95, with little but his medals and a fame that already belonged to another age. He may not have been the ideal leader of a boys' club or the neighborhood Cub troop...
...advantage of the destruction to rebuild the area into a worthy setting for the cathedral. One group, now headed by Minister of Housing and Local Government (and Churchill's son-in-law) Duncan Sandys, wanted to make away with the clutter of market and business buildings that still hem in St. Paul's, create a majestic plaza in the grand manner...
Henrietta Kanengeiser never learned to cut a dress; her needlework was atrocious, and if she ventured to baste a hem it was likely to sag. Yet she wore clothes with a verve that trailed rapt feminine stares behind her like smoke from a gold-tipped cigarette. And she had an intuitive sense for that ill-defined and mysterious quality, taste. To two generations of American women Henrietta-or, as she was better known, Hattie Carnegie-was the quintessence of feminine fashion. Last week, at 69, Hattie Carnegie died of cancer, and left few peers in the bewildering business of adorning...
Upon docking in Manhattan on another leg of the honeymoon following a quasi-medieval wedding in Venice (TIME, Oct. 3), a Mexico City Volkswagen salesman, known better to the international set as empireless Prince Alfonso Maximilian Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 31, took a camera and delicately lifted the skirt hem of his voluptuous bride, Princess Virginia Ira Furstenberg, 15, to make a different kind of cheesecake shot for avid tabloid photographers...