Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uneasy people saw flying saucers in the air. Women, prodded by the dress manufacturers, draped their figures in the New Look which, like all new fashions, was becoming only to the stylish. Race prejudice still showed its ugly head. Senator Bilbo .was stopped at the door of Congress and went back to the South to die, but Willie Earle was lynched in Greenville, S.C., and 31 men who were tried for the crime were freed...
...dyed-in-the-wool horse bettor, dog racing is evidence that man will bet on anything that moves-be it kangaroos, chimpanzees or jumping frogs. Certainly a dog track is no place to admire the look of a dog: his face is wrapped in a muzzle that looks something like an air-raid warden's mask. But dog racing is an $81 million-a-year business in Florida...
...always oblige the comet fanciers. Last week a bright but furtive comet called 1947-N was already 100 million miles from the earth and rushing toward the dark outer fringe of the solar system at 35 miles a second. Only the southern hemisphere got a good look when it was near and bright...
...alive each time. Before he died, Bellini's faith and art had combined to create Madonnas like the one here reproduced, which were credibly like the Virgin the Wise Men found at Bethlehem: a living woman, and the Mother of God. The compassion in that Madonna's look, and in her hands which both protect and present the Child, touches eternity...
Homemade Fancies. Once there is added to these bewildering inconsistencies Shaw's homemade fads & fancies-his plumping for "eugenic breeding'' (which Bentley, with restraint born of love, euphemizes into "idealistic racism"), antivivisectionism, vegetarianism, the Bergsonian "Life Force"-the Shavian mind begins to look like a railroad baggage room, full of handsome luggage and old egg crates...