Word: restless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against the current of modern art. The stepson of a rich St. Petersburg banker, Berman was left homeless at 18 by the Russian Revolution. Settling in Paris, he was enchanted by the "Blue Period" paintings of another alien, Picasso, 18 years older than Berman. By that time, restless "Papa" Picasso was gaining notoriety as a cubist; but Berman, along with his brother Léonid, and his friends Tchelitchew and Bérard, thought cubism something to keep clear of. Their idea was to go on from where Picasso's Blue Period left off-to paint, in a traditional...
Other segments of labor were restless...
...crusade. He looked tired and sullen; his hair was now almost white. Seeing him wandering aimlessly around hotel lobbies, old friends came up to him with a smile, and tried to talk. They soon gave up and just stared. Wallace stared back and then wandered on, heavy-bodied, restless and moody...
...faces are the calmly arrogant, anonymous faces Hitchcock always found for his sinister antagonists. Looking at them, as they stand casually in the restless sunlight before the familiar white clapboards of an ordinary house in a peaceful city, you are suddenly chilled beyond belief. You realize, swiftly, that they are not the friendly, ordinary men they pretended to be all along. . . . The bland face of the short, portly man in front-obviously the leader-has become set, purposeful, inscrutable, and his hand is all at once in the pocket of his grey suitcoat. The faces of his henchmen, grouped carelessly...
Pich's nearest neighbor, Trapper George Farrel, miles away in the frozen forest, heard no shots. But Parrel's huskies sensed something wrong and grew restless, soon were howling. Farrel broke camp, set out for Pich's cabin. After struggling through a blizzard he got there in time to hear Pich gasp out his story before he died. Outside, Farrel found the bodies of Pich's huskies. To save them from starving, Pich had shot them...