Word: paint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since last spring the little Quaker farming town of West Branch, Iowa (pop. 769) had been getting ready for the 80th birthday of its famous son. The Lions International club pushed a campaign to get the town's modest homes gleaming with new paint, and front yards trimmed to the quick. Work was rushed on the new elementary school so that the famous guest could dedicate it. The night before the big day, the Women's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church stored gallons of pickled beets and great bowls of applesauce in the demonstration refrigerators...
Senator Estes Kefauver calls himself a "liberal" as contrasted with a conservative. The challenger of his renomination, Representative Pat Sutton, did his best to paint Kefauver's domestic record in the most vivid radical colors, and attacked him as an "internationalist" who would submerge the U.S. in a world government. Though there was substance in some of the attack, Kefauver won a smashing endorsement from the Democrats of Tennessee. In view of these events, it is not surprising that Democrats are wondering whether the Southern conservatives, whom neither a Roosevelt nor Truman could dislodge from office...
...natural-looking powder and rouge. When Jean Harlow suddenly became a platinum blonde, Max Factor was ready with the bleach to help thousands follow suit. By the '30s, scores of Hollywood pictures carried the Max Factor name in their credits. Biggest single order: 600 gallons of body paint for the bronze-skinned characters...
When he gets sick of painting altogether. Albright taxies home to Chicago's fashionable North Side (his wife is Josephine Medill Patterson Reeve, daughter of the late founder of New York's Daily News) or goes off to his Wyoming ranch At such times of rest, Albright readily confesses that he does "not enjoy painting much. I go at it the hard way. with my eyes wide open. But I do like getting the results I want. I'd rather paint one good picture than a hundred bad ones. Anybody can paint bad ones-including...
Among Albright's most famous works to date are a phosphorescently rotten-looking woman in underwear called Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida and a moldy door called That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do. "I just can't seem to paint nice things," he muses. "I've tried but it doesn't work. Once I designed a Christmas card and got a prize for it but no royalties. I think the only copies sold were those bought myself. It was a stained glass window-very dirty and dusty. Looked...