Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alfred Stieglitz has been praised without end in terms both glowing and peculiar. Wrote Esthete Lewis Mumford in 1934: "In a part-by-part revelation of a woman's body, in the isolated presentation of a hand, a breast, a neck, a thigh, a leg, Stieglitz achieved the exact visual equivalent of the hand or the face as it travels over the body of the beloved." Cracked Artist Thomas H. Benton: "When Stieglitz aims his camera at a young woman's backside it is as if he had discovered for the first time in history that young women...
...stubborn ones came again -24 dive-bombers and torpedo planes. This time at least one attacker made good. He dropped a 500-pounder on one of the forward turrets. Captain Gatch, who was standing on the bridge's exposed catwalk, took a fragment of bomb in his neck. An artery was cut. His shoulder was torn. He was knocked out. But his ship got through...
...himself up "very elaborately." He tore his best silk shirt to shreds, shaved his armpits so deep that they bled, transferred blood to other parts of his body, turning his bathing trunks inside out, placed an enormous red geranium behind one ear, a pearl necklace round his neck, and finally smeared his whole body with a mixture of goat dung and aspic. From this there emerged, says Dali, "Miracle of miracles!-the 'exact' odor of the ram . . . a stifling stench...
Epidemic keratoconjunctivitis was described in last month's War Medicine by Drs. Michael J. Hogan and Joseph W. Crawford of San Francisco. Main characteristics: Small glands of the cheek and neck usually swell, and eyelid swelling may become extreme. When the swelling goes down after about three weeks, white spots may remain in the cornea, especially around the edges of the pupil. These vision disturbers take from one to three months to be absorbed. The disease is thought to be transmissible only by direct contact...
...Golden Gate Ballroom. The white-robed, white-gloved, white-carnationed Negro choir on the gold-&-blue velveted stage let go with Hallelujah! Hallelujah! The pianist took off. The congregation began to clap to. the beat. The clarinet rode away from the melody. A little old Negro woman, her wrinkled neck twitching like a cock's comb, sprang into the air and screamed. All over "the auditorium black heads bobbed ecstatically as if mounted on pogo sticks. From the stage rose the voice of the evangelist: "Let me hear them screams, pilgrims! Let me hear...