Word: poses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sketch of Shaw, Woolf wrote him a Shavian letter, saying that "immortality will not be yours until I have drawn you." Replied Shaw: "I have now considerable experience as an artist's model, but my terms-about $3,750 an hour-are prohibitive." Answered Woolf: "Your price for posing is acceptable to me.My price for a drawing is the same amount. . . ." He got the interview-a barrage of economics, socialism, religion, art, plus a confidential glimpse of a nude photograph which Shaw had had taken of himself in the pose of Rodin's The Thinker. The Times asked...
...Crow Stark, furious at his party, stayed on overtime while the case went to the Supreme Court. Citizens everywhere spat disgust at the Democratic legislature; some of it spattered on uncomfortable, friendly Lawrence McDaniel. At an advertising club's satirical dinner (Jan. 31) the chums were asked to pose together. Genial McDaniel was willing; Donnell declined. The chums were chums no longer. Last week the Supreme Court held for Republican Donnell; and as Jefferson City jammed up for the Donnell inaugural, roly-poly Mr. McDaniel saw the end of a beautiful friendship...
Sirs: Do TIME'S photographers have on a secret wager to find the most unattractive possible pose of Dorothy Thompson [see cut, centre -TIME, Jan. 6] for their admirable journal? So it appears; and it seems too bad to the number of TIME devotees who find in Miss Thompson . . . one of the steadily increasing lights now shining in a dark place. MRS. CURTIS CRUMP Asheville...
...Finance Minister obliged by tendering his resignation last week. He made it stick in spite of Acting President Ramón S. Castillo's refusal to accept it. Juan Pueblo was not sure whether the resignation was a confession of defeat or a maneuver to pose as a martyred patriot. Castillo blamed the Radicals for refusing to make peace, threatened to dissolve Congress and rule by duodécimo.* The Radical Chamber of Deputies cracked back by refusing to vote on the budget, the Pinedo Plan or anything else until the election frauds were investigated. Angry shouts of "Buffoon...
...spelled Philadelphia. When the truant officers found him, ten days later, he was sent to reform school. There he met an Irish kid named Frankie Madden, leader of the Itch Mob. Madden wised him up to the prize ring, persuaded him to become a fighter, let him pose as his kid brother. In 1917, after 131 fights. Battling Joe Madden quit the ring...