Word: protectorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnny West heard. He opened the cab door, shot Conn in the lungs and hit a game protector named Frank Friemoth in the shoulder. But as Conn sank, his Tommy gun cut loose. West toppled out to the pavement, dying, his face a bloody pulp...
...Gallup pollsters asked ordinary U.S. citizens what they would do if they were President. Most had a simple platform: "I would help people and try to make them happy." The people's concept of the U.S. President, Gallup reported, was of a benevolent father, a helper and protector of the common...
...chair. For years Joe Grundy had run the state through his Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association, founded on and dedicated to the principle that what's best for industry is best for the state. Jim Duff had another theory: that capitalism thrives best when it is not just the protector of entrenched wealth, but serves all the people equally...
Giovanni Bellini's Feast of the Gods has long been a puzzle as well as a masterpiece. The gods look more drunk than divine. Vesta, protector of virgins, lies dozing in one corner of the picture while Priapus fiddles with her skirt. A blowsy Ceres helps Apollo hoist cup to lip. Neptune is paired off with Gaea, who holds a quince -the symbol of marriage. Bacchus appears as a child, and his foster father Silenus looks more like a slender ascetic than a roly-poly satyr. Generations of art scholars have wondered...
...health limits Matisse's pleasures almost entirely to his work. He sees almost no one except the handsome Russian woman, Livia Delectorskaya, who has been his chief model, housekeeper, secretary and protector for 15 years. Livia rounds up other models for the master-a hard job in provincially prudish Vence. Sometimes she returns with the 26-year-old girl who is the town's one harlot, who describes Matisse as "a wonderfully sweet old man, always chattering while I pose." Matisse avoids fellow artists ("I can't see many people nowadays"). But the old man loves...