Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wonder What Became of Me (Anita Ellis; Epic LP). A progression of songs threaded on a first-person narrative. Songstress Ellis pretends to recall her childhood, lisps her way through If I Had a Ribbon Bow, works her way through giddy happiness (I Ain't Got No Shame), through fierce, frightening love (I Love You Porgy), and on to final, hopeless reflections about her life in the title song. Songstress Ellis has a flexible voice, a flair for drama, sings well, puts the fantasy across handily...
...more than 6,000 such Hungarians had been airlifted to the U.S. They had gazed, no longer with dead eyes but with new hope, at their new land. They had gone through a good deal of red tape-but red tape, when skillfully cut, can make a beautiful Christmas ribbon...
...when Hals was nearly 70 and had modified his earlier bravura style in favor of a deeper maturity and more finely modeled values. Hals still gave the wealthy young housewife's finery its due, from dangling earrings to her triangular, diaphanous white fichu primly pinned with a golden ribbon bow. But in the modeling of the forehead, he has also suggested the very qualities which her husband (whose supposed portrait hangs in Kansas City's Nelson Gallery) no doubt most prized: not proud and haughty beauty but industry neatness and the solid virtue of goodness...
...Pittsburgh last week, in a determined attempt to rescue Jim Duff, came Gettysburg Farmer Dwight Eisenhower, whose own popularity remains high in Pennsylvania. After Ike's blue-ribbon endorsement (the warmest of the campaign to date), things looked somewhat brighter for Jim Duff, who has never yet lost an election. Republican headquarters in Harrisburg and Pittsburgh reported a surge of financial contributions and volunteer workers. State Chairman Bloom heaved an audible sigh of relief about the improved state prospects. But some of the Grundy boys were still following after their oldtime leader (1904-21), Boies Penrose, who believed firmly...
...Gallipoli became a British synonym for "gallantry and folly" is the burden of the latest book by Alan Moorehead, Australian World War II war correspondent (North Africa, Europe). His account of this last great battle for Constantinople, when Western man last fought for "glory" and "immortality," gleams like a ribbon on khaki...