Word: mcbrides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Institute's 61 paintings covering the 28 years of Georgia O'Keeffe's painting life, are a superb catalogue. They include the abstractions, the giant flowers, trees, shells, bones, skulls and landscapes which once caused the New York Sun's Critic Henry McBride to remark that only Georgia O'Keeffe could "so hush up a bunch of lady art connoisseurs and make them go whispering on tiptoes about a gallery." O'Keeffe's huge flowers include jack-in-the-pulpits, hollyhocks, larkspur, the 3-by-2½-ft. Black Iris, which the Institute...
...General Jonathan M. Wainwright, Commander of Corregidor, is imprisoned on Formosa with twelve other U.S. generals: Major Generals Edward King Jr., George F. Moore, George M. Parker Jr., Brigadier Generals Lewis C. Beebe, Clifford Bluemel, William E. Brougher, Charles C. Drake, Arnold J. Funk, Maxon S. Lough, Allan C. McBride, Clinton A. Pierce, James R. N. Weaver...
...touch and go football battle this afternoon on Soldiers Field, at 5:30 o'clock. The "Daily" ground attack, usually effective, will be especially earthy for the contest. The Indians will be bolstered by a speedy backfield which will be invaluable in the last quarter dash to McBride's and other points on the invariably confused field of battle. In addition, the entire squad has mastered English especially for the game, thus allowing the signal caller to cease his sign-language tactics...
...Other well-known Mrs. Know-it-alls: CBS's Adelaide Hawley; NBC's Mary Margaret McBride, Blue's Nancy Craig...
...They all had accents," the pretty 19-year-old ingenue said of her abductors, over an old-fashioned at McBride's. Further inquiry revealed that these were not samples of speech from Groton, Nebraska, or even from Brooklyn. "No, they were South American, I think...I can't remember the boys' names; it all happened too fast." A rapid peeling off of the House names revealed that the arrant gentlemen were from Dunster...