Word: radiant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...postwar equivalents of the flapper and the lounge lizard, the short skirts and Oxford bags of the 1920's, they had not evolved yet. The only really distinctive style note was the transitory costume-half uniform, half civilian clothes-of discharged servicemen. The new automobile, refrigerator, and radiant heating system were still just pictures in advertisements; whiskey was 65% neutral grain spirits, and butter was hard to find...
Traitor. Lida Baarova (real name: Ludmilla Babkova) was born in Prague. Her father was a Milquetoasty little fellow who worked in the city hall; her domineering mother was determined that Lida should be a radiant somebody. She became one, in motion pictures. Seven years ago she was the center of a great brouhaha when goatish little Paul Joseph Goebbels was beaten up (either by her burly husband, Gustav Frölich, or by friends of his) for being entertained in Lida's chambers. Berliners coined a crack-"Ich möchte so gern fröhlich sein"-which...
Scowls & Love. Twelve minutes after Churchill began speaking, Ernest Bevin shuffled in. Churchill stopped, cast a radiant smile across the aisle. Said he: "I am very glad to see the new Foreign Secretary sitting on the front bench opposite. I would like to say with what gratification I learned that the right honorable gentleman had taken on this high office." Bevin scowled. Few can pay compliments so gracefully as Churchill; few can receive them as gracelessly as Bevin. Later, when Labor members teased Bevin about his fondness for Churchill, he growled: "But I love him. I love...
Last week the 46-year-old former Kentucky governor, former minor-league baseball player, got ready to give up his $10,000-a-year senatorial job. He had been made high commissioner of baseball at $50,000 a year (see SPORT). Baseball had gained a boss of radiant confidence. (Said Happy: "I may be in error, but I'm never in doubt.") The U.S. Senate had lost a minor politician...
...newald masterpiece is a polyptych of six hinged wood panels, each depicting scenes from the story of Christ's life. Painted about 1516 for a convent at Isenheim, Alsace, the intense, now-gruesome, now-radiant Altar Screen is easily the most important set of medieval paintings any German produced. Most experts agree that the work ranks above the best of Holbein the Younger, Dürer and Cranach...