Word: neckedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bacon's first exhibition, which opened in a London gallery last week, represented a minor triumph for his tight, bright little circle of admirers. By dint of carefully mingled rapture and doubt, they had persuaded him to save twelve canvases for the show. Whether his twelve survivors represented a...
Soon the rash spread up Joyce's arms and down her body. The itching was almost unbearable. When Holdridge was shipped overseas, her rash went away. When he came back, so did the rash. Soon, on her way to work as a telephone operator in San Francisco, Joyce Holdridge...
While the steelworkers met in Pittsburgh to authorize a strike, the President put on the squeeze. In identical wires to the six major steel companies, he proposed a board of inquiry which would make recommendations on settling the dispute. U.S. Steel Corp.'s stiff-necked Ben Fairless turned it...
Early one morning, Chiang Kai-shek's Douglas Skymaster eased down onto the runway of Canton's Milky Way airport. The Gimo, wearing a jungle-green uniform, stepped out waving his sun helmet. It was his first visit to Canton since 1936. A waiting group of Kuomintang officials...
In his long and often stormy banking & business career, big, bull-necked old A. P. Giannini had retired officially at least three times. But he had too much energy to sit still; unofficially he went right on working so hard at his Bank of America that friends knew there was...