Word: poses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Antonio last week were several thousand soldiers of the Third Army waiting around for the furloughs due them after maneuvers. Delay had its compensations. No need had they to pose the question: Madam, have you a daughter fair? Ready to see that the boys had a fine time were 1,000 Texas maidens...
...artists, they held machines in fear and reason in contempt. They lost faith in progress, protested against life itself. The toughest of them remained within their urban prison, cultivating the stoic pose of the dandy, who scrutinized putrescence through a monocle. "To the real artist it was almost necessary to be blasphemous or mad." Indeed, "the 19th Century left the defense of primary values to madmen." Much of Allott's thesis is summed up in that arresting sentence. And pointing to such diverse phenomena as Tarzan and T. S. Eliot, he argues that 19th-Century romanticism persists to this...
After being kicked around for 46 years, the Seaway strikes an awkward pose as an emergency measure in 1941. But the real question is how it will look...
...effect was powerful; on the less mature it was staggering. Said one young spectator for publication: "It was all good. I can't remember." Lest the Big Show be beautified out of its hallowed form, in other acts Trainer Alfred Court presides over snarling panthers and lions who pose, with noble indifference, among dogs and bears, including the bruin who apparently gets ecstatically drunk on a bottle of beer. Elly Ardelty, netless, stands on her pretty blonde head on a trapeze at the very top of the circus heavens. Massimilliano Truzzi juggles knives, flaming torches and the spectators...
Seven Female Crews, Seven, will line up at Yale's far-famed Derby Day this spring if plans now formulating at New Haven go through. In an effort to see whether the feminine sweepswingers who appear annually in the rotogravure sections know how to row as well as pose for the press, it has been revealed that invitations to participate in the notorious holiday have been sent to seven eastern women's colleges...