Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subjects I paint is sex appeal. . . . I see it in an abandoned posture of the body, in lips that are relaxed and never tense and in hair that is informally arranged. . . . I wish I could see some New York men glamorous enough. . . . I am on the lookout for them all the time but every time I come to New York it seems to me that the male population looks less picturesque. I think of New York mainly as a good place to lose weight...
...Whittier's 287 inhabitants knew him by sight. He was affable and talkative, gave his name as Reynolds Rogers. He bought a pair of blue overalls, put on an old sweater and cap, cut himself a tall staff and began taking walks in the hills. He built a lookout in a tree on a knoll, a rude altar on another hillside. People living in the same boarding house with him understood he was prospecting for gold, came from "up Kentucky way." Reynolds Rogers attended the County Republican convention, made speeches in which he said he was an intimate...
...Still in Athens, last week Samuel Insull, fugitive from justice, gave up cigarets for cigars, swore off coffee. He told the police that he had heard of a kidnap plot being hatched against him in Chicago. Thereafter a carload of fat Athenian police on the lookout for "Chicago gangsters" trailed him. And always close behind him walked swart, stout Peter Vanech of Stamford, Conn., swinging a big stick, scowling ferociously. Wary of Greeks bearing gifts, Samuel Insull shook himself free of a crowd of hangers-on, hired an interpreter. He made numerous visits to the office of American Express...
Noteworthy is the tuna fishing detail: the lookout man, the leaping school of tuna in the distance, the bait-thrower, the lashing together of double lines with two poles for the big tuna, the wild scenes with three fish continuously in the air, the sharks' sinister grey shadows beneath the surface. The tuna are the composite hero throughout, the sharks the composite villain. The sharks "settle everything," tumble drowning fishermen, end love triangles, horrify audiences. Robinson writhes and mouths his lines in an effective, fat facsimile of Lionel Barrymore's acting. Zita Johann, beauteous Austrian-born importation from Manhattan...
...There is a point on the outskirts of Mukden where the tracks of Chang's Peking-Mukden line pass under a bridge of the Japanese-owned South Manchuria Railway. Workmen were seen working on the under side of that bridge during the night. The only place where a lookout could have hidden was inside a Japanese sentry box. At the very instant when Chang's private train passed under the bridge an electrically wired bomb dropped down on his private car, blew the Old Tiger out of all consideration. Young Chang, inheritor of his father's great...