Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Touch of Blackmail? After George's colleagues had crowded around him to shake his hand, it was the turn of another old man, Rhode Island's 88-year-old Democrat Theodore Francis Green, to add up some of the real reasons why the foreign-aid bill was in trouble...
Joseph Wanton is character analysis in the grand manner. Done by Scottish Immigrant John Smibert, it shows a Royalist politician whose bland, irresolute features bode ill for his future fame. After Wanton became Governor of Rhode Island, he fought with soft talk the stirrings of the American Revolution, and retired the moment the storm broke. Painter Smibert's story was just the opposite. He learned his craft by studying the masters while painting carriages, came to America in 1729, when he was 40. One year later he held the first art show ever recorded in America, and became...
...soft underbelly of Puritanism. Surinam, or Dutch Guiana, was a stopping place on the Yankee merchant circuit. Greenwood spent some years there, put himself in his picture rushing, candle in hand, for the door. Among the other identified portraits is that of Captain Nicholas Cooke (later Governor of Rhode Island), smoking a pipe and talking with Captain Esek Hopkins (later commander of the Continental navy) at the table. Another Hopkins, Stephen (who was to sign the Declaration of Independence), blesses an oblivious salt with rum, while Captain Ambrose Page neatly vomits in his pocket. The time...
Somewhat more exotic--and definitely more avant garde--is the full-dress Jazz Festival that will take place on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of this week (July 5-7) at Newport, Rhode Island, about a two-hour drive to the south. The Festival consists of concerts, seminars, workshops, and the like, and annually attracts a host of jazz celebrities in addition to thousands of enthusiastic fans...
...Mushroom Cloud. The race began almost too calmly. A fickle Rhode Island westerly died to a breeze of only two knots as the yachts edged in toward the starting line between the forward mast of the Brenton Reef Lightship and a white flag on the committee boat. But in a few hours the wind freshened, and the field scudded off on the fastest Bermuda race in history...