Word: placidness
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Sculptor Simmons' sculpture looks like surrealism, but she is no dilly-Dali-er. Her pieces tell stories with such imagination that each tells something different to every onlooker. Immunity (see cut) shows a placid feminine face resting on a hand, amid the broken sections of a wheel. In Waiting an old woman looks down two flights of stairs, while a clock's hand nears 12 and a high-heeled slipper crosses from one flight to the next...
With his Philco career thus launched with a splash, the rubicund seer of Greenwich Time rolled back to his placid office in the Connecticut hills, got out Saturday's paper (circulation...
High hopes are held for the schussmen. They have already won the Williams Carnival Ski meet and taken a second place at Lake Placid...
...Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! was the tune for the bands one morning last week when John L. Lewis walked into a hall at Columbus, Ohio. On the platform he paused for a word with his daughter, Kathryn, large and placid in a black dress. He mouthed his after-breakfast cigar, chatted, paced up & down until an introductory orator droned: "I give you . . ." Only then did the finest actor in U. S. Labor turn to the crowd. Grey hairs laced his black mane. His squat body was taut and still. One hand brushed at his eyes, at the arching black eyebrows...
...heckle the King Cabinet unmercifully week after week in Parliament. Mr. King's bland refusal to take Conservatives into his Cabinet for the duration of the war offered the opportunity. The accident of Mitch Hepburn's choosing this moment to press an intraparty feud with placid Mr. King merely made the attacks of Conservative Manion more embarrassing...