Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phil Murray did not like to see his scrappy brood of C.I.O. kids kick each other around. But Papa Phil could not have been very displeased at some of last week's infighting. Some of the C.I.O.'s Red-eyed bully boys-whom he does not like-were getting their lumps...
...exhibition traced Matisse's wavering, laborious progression from his early copy of a dead fish by Chardin, gleaming in mahogany darkness, to the abstract paper cutouts, brighter than circus posters, which he makes nowadays. Advancing room by room, visitors saw that Matisse had put increasing kick in his colors and bite in his outlines as he grew older...
André and his parents arrived in the U.S. ten years ago. As a conservatory student in his native Berlin, he learned about the old masters. In Los Angeles he heard a jazz record by famed Pianist Art Tatum and "went on a mad Tatum kick for four years." José Iturbi heard Andre playing boogie, got him to arrange the boogie pieces for his Holiday in Mexico. M-G-M signed Andre just after he graduated from high school, put him on studio chores- everything from playing the piano for rehearsals to "watching sink" (synchronizing the film with...
Even Yale's year-round practice schedule fails to perturb Bolles. "It's all right by me if they train thirteen months a year," he observed drily. "If, they get a kick out of it, more power to them, but you can only train so long before you reach a physical peak, and after that the chances of going stale are that much greater...
...somewhat exaggerated account. Lady Astor and the Des Moines lady, both laughing heartily, did kick out playfully at each other, but neither kick landed. Later, the Des Moines lady reported admiringly: "She talks with her feet as well as her hands...