Word: posed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marquis of Queensberry's rules. Miss Rukeyser, in her poem on the Scottsboro case, gives us her view; Hayes, who declares somewhat theatrically that he is a "permanent communist," gives us his in "For People Who Buy in Small Parcels," while James McQuail, who also strikes a pose as an "overpowering conservative," stands pat, with "Tea Time Tales" as his offering to the Tories. It is unkind for William Carlos Williams to criticize him as follows: "I'd advise him rather to take up arboriculture, unless he is so extraordinarily devoted to writing at its most difficult that even newspaper...
...take part in the 100th anniversary of Andrew Carnegie's birth. Since 1921 Scot Grant has been official bagpiper at the Carnegies' Skibo Castle, has mounted the battlements every summer morning at 7:45 sharp to pipe Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Awakin'? Given time to pose for cameramen, to announce in a thick brogue, "Yes, I met Mr. Carnegie when he used to give out chil dren's feeds at Skibo," Piper Grant was bundled off by Carnegie Son-in-Law Roswell Miller to await jubilee celebrations on Nov. 25. That day Walter Damrosch will conduct...
...George II and please General George Kondylis, the Dictator who is bringing him back to Athens, or one could cast a red ballot for the Republic and get roughed up. Some 98% of the ballots were royal blue and members of the Athens rabble were easily induced to pose enthusiastically with magazines open at George II's picture (see cut). Wired Foreign Minister Theotokis to His Majesty at Brown's: "There were absolutely no abstentions from the voting...
Said Miss Leaver: "I'm a bit modest. Even if I did pose in a bathing suit, you know how people will talk. ... I don't think a little drapery will hurt...
Said bewildered Sculptor Vittor: "Napoleon's Josephine posed for Canova without a bathing suit. After all Miss Leaver didn't pose in the nude and there's nothing to offend her. . . . My brother Anthony and I had every measurement. We had photographs of her. We had a chart...