Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Women and art do not seem to mix well. The top ranks of American painters include only two women-Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe-and few countries can boast even that much female talent. Nevertheless, with the increasing leisure of American womanhood and the enticement of painting as a hobby, women have an invitation to become popular artists. Grandma Moses has proved it possible, on a grand scale. And now Cape Cod's Alice Stallknecht, a spry, sturdy widow of 77, is seconding the nomination...
Korn became a big businessman. He installed a battery of modern machines in his middle-sized wine cellar in Johannisberg, tapped a water main to get enough water, boosted production higher and higher. Bigness finally proved his undoing. At one point, he forgot to mix in exactly the right amount of potash to match the area's good wines, and a suspicious controller caught the mistake, also discovered Korn's heavy purchases from the local chemical dealer. He called the police...
...previous shows, Paar complained on camera about cue mix-ups, improper offstage signals and placement of cameras. Casting a withering glance at a cameraman whose lenses were not quite up to Paar, he smirked: "I have no makeup on my belt buckle tonight." And when one show became a shambles, he ad-libbed: "Friends, aren't you glad you tuned in; we've been rehearsing for nine minutes." Some of Paar's gentle mockery was a replay of old summer material, e.g., his radio-announcer bloopers ("We have just the furniture to seat your nudes"), and reliable...
...outdistanced Consumers Research to become the best-known tester of consumer products in the U.S. Paying himself a starting salary of $10 a week, Kallet and five technicians issued monthly Consumer Reports, advised readers how to save money on everything from tooth paste (use precipitated chalk) to fly spray (mix pyrethrum powder and kerosene). By this year 900,000 subscribers were paying $5 a year for the reports, and the Union had 75 part-time shoppers in 50 cities, a headquarters staff of 175, an automobile laboratory in Connecticut, a textile laboratory in Massachusetts...
...Frank Sinatra. All this adds up to vulgar exploitation of the Roman Catholic Church, says Film Critic Robert Brizzolara of The Voice of St. Jude, national magazine of the Claretian Missionary Fathers. With a few exceptions, he writes in the current issue, the formula is classic: "Take priest, mix in dash of sex with preposterous plot. Hollywood reads. Hollywood buys...