Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike the Senators, leaders of the House of Representatives are not hunting for trophies in the pages of the nation's supreme law. In the House, the Butler Amendment joined 116 other proposed amendments on 47 different subjects, all of which are resting in the sanctuary of a quiet subcommittee...
...Tablehoppers, a newly opened Hollywood saloon for members only. One of the founding Tablehoppers. Hotel Heir Conrad ("Nicky") Hilton Jr., 27, whooped his way out of the place in the tow of a good Samaritan, Cinemactor John (Surrender) Carroll, who tried to beach rudderless Nicky in a quiet berth in Carroll's apartment near by. On their long voyage home, Nicky got hold of the car door, expertly swung it to blacken Carroll's eye. Local cops, called by Carroll's neighbors, described the rest of the trip. To the echoes of cursing, screaming and collapsing furniture...
After the turn of the century, Vuillard's quiet, intimate style went out of fashion. About the same time he turned to commissioned portraits and large landscapes, which never reached the level of his interior scenes. In the early days, even the views from his Paris studio were inside pictures; the artist sits within the security of his room, looking out on the rooftops...
...symbolist who worshiped at the literary and artistic shrines of Mallarmé and Gauguin, Vuillard brought impressionism into the parlor. Like Manet, Monet and Degas, he covered his canvases with veils of light and shadow. But Vuillard's subjects were domestic-his mother, his friends and the quiet, bourgeois, wallpapered rooms in which they lived. To those everyday themes, he brought the quiet joy of small mysteries...
...likelihood, would have been a success-and probably a millionaire-no matter where he lived. The proximity to Texas oil, plus the depletion allowance, gave him a chance to pyramid his millions. He has a trader's shrewd knowledge of human beings and a gambler's quiet ability to calculate the odds. He also has a banker's cold logic and an optimist's faith in U.S. business enterprise. A little bit of all these qualities is apparent in most of his deals...