Word: pose
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Conductor since the start has been Hans Kindler, bouncing, blond Netherlander, no kindler of heat in his 80 players but a hilarious prankster, always good for a funny pose when the boys with the cameras come around. Last week the National Symphony announced that this season would be its last. Reason: union trouble...
...Chungking, capital of the free Chinese Republic, work was rushed on an iron statue of Wang Ching-wei, Japanese puppet installed last week in Nanking, and his wife. Pose: kneeling, like traitors about to be beheaded. Purpose: to let the populace spit on them...
When and if La Sheridan came to Cambridge, the Warner crew hoped to effect a public reconciliation between Ann and the Poon by having Lampoon editors and the oomph girl pose for the press in intimate and forgiving attitudes...
Soon Artist Chapin got so absorbed in spare, taciturn, unschooled Emmet, George and Ella Marvin that he stopped painting cubist arrangement of rocks, scaffolding and apple trees, became instead a limner of the U. S. scene long before it became the popular thing. The suspicious Marvins would not pose at first, thawed when he worked with them in the fields, helped round up the pigs. For five years he stirred from the farm no more than the Marvins did, sketched them ploughing, foxhunting, planting potatoes, sharpening a scythe, clustered round their old iron kitchen range. The paintings that resulted...
Westman Law. Three days before last Christmas, Sweden's new conservative Cabinet set up a committee for the pur pose of "devising appropriate measures to prevent misuse of press freedom." Minister of Justice Karl Gustaf Westman (already feared in Sweden because of his Nazi leanings) dug up an obsolete press law providing for criminal action against editors who publish "offensive writings" about a foreign State...