Word: ishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buncombe Bob," who is 59 and looks 45, has been something to see: his blond hair, worn actor's length, combed casually over the back of a Barrymore-ish collar, his gay bow tie propped at an insouciant angle, striding merrily and importantly through the Senate at the noontime opening of a session. He gives a backslap here, a glad hand there, pausing to drop a witticism at this Senator's desk, an encouraging word of counsel at another's, to confer now gravely, now casually -dynamic, carefree, yet occasionally sober under the solemn responsibilities of statesmanship...
George Biddle's 45 war pictures were pen drawings of U.S. soldiers in Africa and Italy. His 34 prewar oils were landscapes of California, Texas, Brazil, some still lifes, several portraits. One large canvas pictured a monumental, seated Frieda Lawrence (widow of late great Brit ish Novelist D. H. Lawrence), her chill eyes peering from a heavy face, fringes of her shawl spilling like black blood from...
...present their most pressing task is a WPA-ish project of leveling off a vacant lot next to Mather Hall for the purpose of constructing a couple of volleyball courts and several horseshoe-pitching games. The ground is to be covered with a layer of cinders as soon as the leveling process is completed...
...tough campaign against hillbilly-ish Eugene Talmadge last year, no Arnall supporters were more effective than college students infuriated by the Talmadge purge of the State's universities. Too young to vote, they worked on their parents, hounded local political leaders, burned Gene Talmadge in effigy all over the State. Once elected, Arnall reciprocated by pushing an amendment to the State Constitution that would lower the voting age from 21 to 18 relieve the new voters of a $1 poll .. (When they became 21, they would begin to pay it.) Chief opposition came from Talmadge and his Vigilantes...
...foreign policy. "Isolationists" wrongly believed that the U.S. needed no foreign policy. "Interventionists" were merely those who finally realized that the U.S. could not survive without Great Britain and therefore adopted Brit ish foreign policy...