Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goat-bearded, argumentative agnostic was London University's Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchison Joad, who once asserted (on the dust-jacket of his Testament of Joad): "I can explain anything to anybody." For the last 18 months he has carried out this threat on a popular BBC radio program, "The Brains Trust." But of late radio fans have noticed a decreasing cockiness in Brain Truster Joad's answers. One shrewd lady listener wrote him that he seemed to be walking a tightrope between the mountain of faith and the abyss of doubt, and that she prayed every night...
...history to present a collection of clothes carefully attuned to Government Order L-85. Here, briefly, are the highlights of this Government ruling: No bias or dolman sleeves. No woolen evening wraps. No woolen evening dresses. A maximum of 144-inch sweep for evening dresses. No suit jacket over 25 inches long. No cuffs on suits. No patch pockets. No belt over two inches wide. No overskirts...
...year-old fish shack at the end of a wharf in Rockport, Mass. Motif No. 1 is probably the No. 1 U.S. art subject. It has been watercolored, oiled, gouached, penciled, etched, lithographed, photographed. Last month, by a publisher's inadvertence, Motif No. 1 turned up on the jacket of Mary Heaton Vorse's Time and the Town (TIME, July 20), a chronicle of Provincetown, Rockport's rival art colony. Rockport was outraged...
...public apology the Press said: "The company hopes it hasn't offended the good people of Rockport . . . also hopes it hasn't offended the good people of Provincetown." Then the publishers commissioned Motif-Owner Buckley to paint a Provincetown scene for the jacket of its third edition of Time and the Town. Sniggering Provincetowners wondered whether he would have a studio to finish it in. Reason: battered by decades of New England wind & weather, Motif No. 1 was reported last week to be collapsing. With red paint and linseed oil, 30 Rockport artists were trying to save...
Again & again there are glimpses of the sureness of those hands, and insight into a deeply practical mind. Dixon might have been specially trained for this job. He made an all-important sea anchor out of a life jacket, paddles out of his own shoes. He treated Gene's finger expertly when a shark ripped it from end to end. A superstitious man and an "ardent" spiritualist, Dixon was ready to participate in Gene's daily prayers "because it worked a couple of times . . . and later because it gave us something regular to do." When Tony...