Word: plumpings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gaps in the Met's galleries are being filled with contemporary art displays. Twitted because he's willing to expose recent art where he wouldn't risk an old master, plump, practical Director Francis Henry Taylor replies, reasonably: "If the man is still alive he can paint another picture. And it should be a better...
...ceremony was more than a Church of England occasion, just as Dr. Temple is more than a British religious leader. This plump, unpretentious, leftist churchman is the nearest thing to an acknowledged leader that worldwide Protestantism has had since the Reformation. He made history by being the first Primate ever to invite non-Anglican churches to send official representatives to his enthronement. Churchmen came from 17 countries and from 22 different communions...
...program called it a concerto, but the soloist was a soprano. For 24 minutes, off & on, Margot Rebeil warbled wordlessly, while the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under plump Eugene Goossens wove strands of tone around her. Conductor Goossens was giving his audience not only a new work, but a new wrinkle in composition: a full-fledged concerto for voice and orchestra...
...Panache's room now and then for twenty-minute periods to streetwalkers who did not draw the color line." The street was delighted when he contracted the barber's itch. >M. de Malancourt, a wealthy gentleman, had an "astonished camera artist take an art photo of his plump and symmetrical backsides, without drapery." Then he sent a handsomely mounted and autographed print to an art expert whom he suspected of selling him a fake Watteau. Sued for libel by the expert, M. de Malancourt conducted his own defense in the great French tradition. "A picture...
...save Superman from this dilemma, plump, 27-year-old Superscriptman Jerry Siegel patched up a makeshift solution after Pearl Harbor. Superman, rejected for enlistment when his X-ray eyes inadvertently read the chart in the next room, set out to serve his country as No. 1 spycatcher. "Of course," says Ideaman Siegel, who admits that Superman frightens even him sometimes, "if a sub comes to our shores and shells the U.S. we might have him take time out and administer the proper punishment...