Word: radiant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture of Paul V. ("Snow White") McNutt on a pamphlet issued by Indiana's Unemployment Compensation Administration. Beneath picture & caption appeared a chart showing the McNutt rise from law school dean in 1925 to Legion Commander in 1928, Governor in 1933, Philippine High Commissioner in 1937, to a radiant White House in 1941. Candidate McNutt, now Federal Security Administrator charged with supervising expenses of State unemployment insurance systems, forgave his overzealous friends but, embarrassed by talk in the U. S Senate, ordered the Indiana board's Federal funds cut by the amount the pamphlet's printing cost...
...more desirable. Able, ambitious executive that he is, he could be counted on in either case to do a good job for aged pensioners, youthful school-reliefers, CCC, public health, employment service and the Office of Education. On condition that his friends be allowed to keep on booming him, radiant Mr. McNutt accepted. Proclaimed he: I am appreciative of the tremendous responsibility of administering such a program. There are some who say that it is too vast to be workable, too ambitious to be realized. I do not hold with these critics for a moment. This program can be built...
...Rocky, radiant, soft-spoken Anthony Sisti, who runs his own art school in Buffalo and flies to Manhattan every week to teach drawing at the New York School of Applied Design for Women, belongs to the modern school in art and the old school in boxing. A praiser of the days when fighters like Benny Leonard relied on brains rather than bang, Tony Sisti planned to eke out six cagey rounds last week. Instead, he found his young and hopeful opponent open to certain applications of practical anatomy, dropped him once and knocked him out for good in 70 seconds...
...flowing brushwork and radiant color scale of Renoir exact joy from an artist and very nearly limit him to that. Clackens' work in the last two decades of his life included fewer sombre or dressed-up studies, more scenes of outdoors and summer. On a Long Island beach he painted early bathing girls in a bobbing timorous ring in blue water. He caught the gaiety of later swimmers from Long Island to St. Jean...
...Radiant in all her buxom splendor, brimming over with her famous "sex personality," platinum-haired Mae West surged into Boston yesterday and at the CRIMSON'S invitation expressed her desire to see Harvard as it really...