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Being Churchill, he had not spoken for five minutes when his deep and nourishing sense of history asserted itself. He reminded delegates that the unity of Europe was not something they had to invent but to rediscover...
Some of the regulars wear flamboyant disguises, assume fake accents to attract the attention of M.C.s, invent fantastic names and laugh-getting occupations. Mrs. Hertz does not stoop to such obvious devices. "I'm comical," she explains, with a gap-toothed grin, "I'm cute." After a fashion, she is. Short (4 ft. 10 in.) and pear-shaped, Sadie looks rather like a good-natured witch (a role she played last Halloween with obvious relish on WOR's Daily Dilemma). Her other assets as a quizgoer include ten years of experience, a bobbing head of tight grey...
...cleverest thing I ever did," said the White Knight, "was inventing a new pudding during the meat course . . . [But] I don't believe that pudding ever will be cooked. And yet it was a very clever pudding to invent...
Stripes for the Nude. For the past 20 years, Sloan has been laboring to invent a new kind of figure painting. Instead of looking out of the window for subjects, he works mostly from the model, six to eight hours a day, in a big, messy hotel studio just north of Greenwich Village. He paints his models traditionally to start with, in tempera and oil glazes to give them a proper glow. Then, as a finishing touch, he adds hundreds of circling red pinstripes, like scratches, to the flesh tones. For Sloan, the pinstripes "clinch the form"; for almost everyone...
...when business slackened, the meat of those laid off could be sold at a discount. Citizens of Samuel Butler's mythical Erewhon outlawed and destroyed all but the most primitive mechanisms. Scraps of the forbidden machines were kept as museum pieces to warn Erewhonians what not to invent...