Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battleships Nevada and Arkansas, and the less-proud Japanese relic Nagatoa, all with blackened paint, twisted upper works, and assorted injuries. Most remarkable, perhaps, was a three-foot dent in the armored afterdeck of the Nevada, as though a cosmic giant had set his boot there...
...girl clerks were gone; and Prince's Gate rang again with the tinkle of party glasses and the blare of a dance band. G.I.s had come with their girls-a few clerks; a few debutantes, and many a "five-shilling touch" from Piccadilly in full war paint. Hedda Hopper of Hollywood was there (in one of her hats). So were Wellington Koo, Sir John (now Viscount) Simon, Lord & Lady Mountbatten and General Spaatz. With cautious restraint, Clement and Mrs. Attlee sipped gin and lemon. Herbert Morrison wandered pixy-like and alone through the garden to the huge refreshment tent...
...told neighbors that her husband had been a criminal and was hiding out. But Ivan Kudrin, a police inspector in the tradition of Dostoevsky's Porfiry Petrovich, became suspicious. He learned that Udod had no criminal record, but that Serafima's family had. The paint job, too, interested him. Kudrin dug around Serafima's cellar and found Udod's body...
Died. Horace Pippin, 57, exporter, self-taught, a top U.S. Negro painter, whose works hang in nine major museums, many a private collection; of a stroke; in West Chester, Pa. Because a bullet wound paralyzed his right arm in World War I, Pippin had to paint his quaint, rugged primitives by supporting his right hand with his left, did it well enough to be compared favorably with famed primitive painters Douanier Rousseau and John Kane...
...Templeton is right), the veteran will get a 4½-room, one-story frame house with overall measurements of 26 by 26 feet. Much of the interior will be unfinished, i.e., no kitchen cabinets, no paint on the walls, no eave troughs, etc. Templeton thinks that this saves the veteran money without depriving him of any necessities. But he has another reason. He hopes that veterans will do most of the necessary finishing work themselves. He has found that homeowners who have put some of their own sweat into a house are the best mortgage risks...