Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scarcely any time to give to painting. When he was able to work in oils he went at it slowly using tentative outlines and building up his forms with wash after wash of semi-transparent color to get the right modeling of light and shade. Infra-red photographs of spurious Daumier paintings showed clearly how this sensitive process had been misunderstood and faked by inferior artists...
Noel's Jesus. Father Conrad Noel, 68, is the Church of England's most famed and deepest-red radical. Grandson of the Earl of Gainsborough, he went to public schools, to Cambridge, to Chichester Theological College, and, he says, "completed my education in the doss-houses of South London." For 27 years Father Noel, an Anglo-Catholic, has been vicar of Thaxted, a small parish near Cambridge. Of his early days as priest he says: "At Thaxted I preached Socialism, and soon introduced a full Catholic Worship according to the old English rite. Some of my parishioners became...
...Red corpuscles eventually replace the decimal points in Atterbury's blood. Miss Plum teaches him jujitsu and the rhumba, becomes his secretary. He refuses to send to Switzerland for edelweiss. He causes Miss Cheri to break her contract under the moral turpitude clause by getting her so drunk she slips under a table in the Biltmore. When the bank sells the studio over his head and fires him, he organizes studio employes to defy the new owner, throws Nassau out with a jujitsu hold, saves Cheri's last picture by having it recut to star a gorilla. Stand...
...Macomb, Ill., a freshman at Western Illinois State Teachers College gave the "hot foot"* to sleeping Red Henderson, No. 1 place-kicker on the college football team. Place-kicker Henderson awoke abruptly, took to crutches, was forced to forego place-kicking for several weeks because of a badly blistered foot...
Riled by Broadway's lukewarm-to-cool appreciation of his three last plays (We, the People, Judgment Day, Between Two Worlds), testy, red-headed Elmer Rice (born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein) three years ago made a public face at all dramatic critics and declared he was "disenchanted" with Broadway for good. So far he has kept his word...