Word: owls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose Britain's lean, aging (76) Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand Russell. "When you go back to Prague," he rasped, "tell your employers that the next time we have an international congress of philosophy we'd prefer that they send someone not so crude." Looking like an indignant owl, New York University's Sidney Hook turned his brisk Brooklyn accent against Kolman: "You talk about economic democracy [in Russia]. You mean economic equality. But there is an equality in freedom and equality in slavery...
This fall Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. joins the animal fanciers with an owl whose, chest lights up with a big "6" (6% saving for cash). To dramatize various features of their service, New York's Chevrolet dealers plan to hire six dwarfs. Fitted with plastic masks and dressed as garage repairmen, the dwarfs will be addressed as Howdy, Quickie, Tidy, Thrifty, Brainy and Brawny...
...face-happy, sad or angry-his baby's smile, a bullfighter, a skeletal fish, were repeated often in his designs. There were also ten deep jugs and thin-necked jars designed as a sort of hollow painted sculpture. One of the liveliest was half-pot and half-owl. Picasso's pottery owed a great deal to archaic Mediterranean sculpture and ceramics, which represented beasts and gods in a similar bulging shorthand, but it also had a 20th Century wit and a deliberate lack of refinement that marked...
...Manager William C. Shelton, 55, also named an executor, began at ten as a newsboy, has been with the paper since 1922. "This might show the Russians," he exulted, "that capitalists in this country treat the workers right fine." ¶ Supervising Managing Editor Michael W. ("Mike") Flynn, 59, an owl-faced, Washington-born news veteran. ¶Circulation Director Harry A. Robinson, 59, a Russian-born, Hearst-trained veteran who came from Boston on temporary assignment to the Times-Herald in 1931, and stayed on. ¶ Advertising Director Edmund F. Jewell, 52, a former publisher of the Manchester (N.H.) Union-Leader...
...write, the winter owl is hooting; the grass is numb and cold. No. The light and warmth must come from within now, more than ever before. . . . There are but few who have saved their matches. And they are poets, painters, writers, not men of science...