Word: pillows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many a U.S. dancer stashes away part of her winter's earnings in her tights, to satisfy a summer ambition. She wants to get to Jacob's Pillow, the Tanglewood of the dance. Last week, while city studios gathered dust, the thrifty, as well as the talented who can get scholarships, were doing their pirouettes, entrechats and extensions in the spruce air of a 200-acre Berkshire farm...
...past years, students at Jacob's Pillow had rubbed elbows in an intimate rural way (over dishes and housework) with such greats of the dance as Martha Graham, Alexandra Danilova, Founder Ted Shawn. This year they got a close-up look at another of the foremost U.S. dancers and teachers. Charles Weidman's name was not so well known to the U.S. as some with less talent. Sol Hurok had never ballyhooed him-but the experts will let him dance in their all-America team any time...
...corner who forwarded it to the national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed-jacket vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public, which has proved to the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut-rate telegraph platitudes has taken Mother's Day to its soft, fatuous heart...
...them from the British Empire and threatening to punch King George in the snoot. Almost every election spring, charges of whopping graft and corruption hurtled through the air above the neglected streets and the uncollected garbage. This year things were different. Said one oldtimer: "Campaign, hell! This is a pillow fight...
Last week, Russian Security Council Delegate Andrei Gromyko and U.S. Delegate Warren Austin were engaged in a verbal pillow fight that was not easy to connect with the basic policies of their countries. Gromyko seemed to be pleading for immediate consideration of general disarmament, atoms & all, while Austin seemed to be insisting that discussion of the Report of the Atomic Energy Commission be separated from any other subject...