Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perennially brickbatted Sculptor Epstein got another lump on the head-this time from the famed Tate Gallery (which owns six of his sculptures). The gallery trustees-all except Sculptor Henry Moore -voted to refuse a sculpture which had been offered as a gift: Epstein's Lucifer, which he considers one of his major works. "The trustees," Sculptor Epstein thereupon told the world, "are a lot of nincompoops-except Moore." He explained further: "There have always been some people who do nothing and are against those...
Neither were Ike's denials good enough to convince skeptical Democratic and Republican politicos. Until they got a more emphatic brushoff, the professionals would lump him in with such other artful dodgers as Bob Taft, Tom Dewey and Harry Truman...
...calling the Assembly in the face of a Communist boycott, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek underscored his recent military victories over the Reds. He could proceed -unilaterally, if necessary-to establish the forms if not the substance of democracy, could tell the Communists and other dissenters to like it or lump...
...streamlined washing machines--a kind that takes clothes soiled and dry in one lump and, for a dime in a slot, turns them out damp and clean half an hour later, with no personal attention in between--are another Brunswick selling point to a student's wife, who is apt to have an 8 hour-a-day job in Boston or Cambridge...
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