Word: pose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usually a scandal. Connoisseurs could find their way about like owls in the brown murk of academic painting; Manet's light-filled colors simply made them hoot. His subject matter, all agreed, was worse than vulgar. Manet had seen fit to invite common people off the street to pose for him, he imitated the impossible glare of sunshine, and he even dared to picture nudes in contemporary settings. Napoleon III himself pronounced Manet's Déjeuner sur I'Herbe (see cut) a threat to public morals. Public disgust was summed up in one word-a word...
...Radcliffe's more adept snowbunnies is shown above in a touching and not unfamilar pose. In fact, medical science is forever amazed at the pretzel positions assumed by the rubber-legged lasses from the city. Small wonder they would rather stay...
...Nelson in the Hotel La Salle lobby. They had a drink, then got into Nelson's car. Joe said that Nelson then took a brown envelope out of his pocket and told him to put the money in it. A few days later Nelson summoned Joe to pose with Governor Dwight Green for newsreel pictures. Said Joe: "I didn't shave and didn't wear a necktie to the Governor's office. That was my way of showing my disgust...
...Capetown, is not so imaginative. She has seen a reproduction of the painting, and suggests that it is not so very old. The central figure, she thinks, is no lady bullfighter strayed from ancient Crete. More likely she's a lady missionary, sent to enlighten (and pose for) the Bushmen by some zealous missionary society...
Smoker expenses may call for an unprecedented amount of monetary aid this year with a seemingly unavoidable $125 charge for the use of Memorial Hall heading the list. Other anticipated liabilities pose the possibility of a nominal door-charge to bolster limited funds...