Word: ruff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most teams wound up with a safe but unprofitable bid of seven diamonds. Players who got to seven spades, an apparently more logical contract than hearts on South's holding, went down on West's inevitable opening lead of the club Ace, which forced the declarer to ruff and eventually gave West a trick in spades...
...make third from first on an outfield single. Last week these scooping, swooping musketmen upset Yankee morale. In the first game of the Series, with Old Reliable Red Ruffing only four putouts away from a no-hitter, they staged a rally that scored four runs, sent Ruff to the showers and nearly stole the ball game...
Lover of Life is not to be confused with Irving Stone's Lust For Life (TIME, Oct. 28, 1935), nor is it likely to be. Both are bio-novels about painters. But about living, Life-Lover Pieter Paul Rubens was measurably less hot under the ruff than Life-Luster Vincent van Gogh, and so is the tone of his story. Comfortably pneumatic as a Rubens model (678 pages), it provides an intricate semiprivate history of its period (1577-1640), a smooth survey course in Renaissance art, and a career which refreshingly breaks most of the rules set down about...
...painter in rich, 17th-Century republican Amsterdam. A proud, flamboyant personality, he charged Amsterdam's solid burghers, soldiers and surgeons high prices for his solemn, cloudy canvases, married a woman of wealth, spent money like a drunken lord on paintings, prints, armor, tapestries and pearls. Some of the ruff-necked portraits Painter Rembrandt did during this early period were as prim and vapid as their complacent cheese-eating subjects. But on the side he prowled Amsterdam's ancient docksides and ghetto streets, drawing, painting and incessantly limning the gnarled faces and baggy clothes of rabbis, sailors and Portuguese...