Word: saws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every now & then the logic of it all was overpowering. Suppose he did have to settle for a small part in a western movie at first? Wouldn't they spot Artie Biggs for a surefire Roy Rogers when they saw his lightning draw and heard him sing the way he sang at Manhattan's St. Vincent Ferrer's school? Why should a kid with his talents stew through fourth grade, take Skippy and Lady out for their walks every night and waste away his life in a 66th Street flat-when Hollywood was right there, waiting...
...shore when another rowboat, occupied by two Russian women, approached. The guards hailed the newly arrived boat, and after a brief but wordy exchange both boats rowed to the shore where they dispossessed the two women, expropriated their less leaky boat and resumed their post... I never saw more rugged souls...
...Complete calm prevails throughout the country." Rural shooting stopped. Business perked up as merchants saw a chance to get the coffee crop to market after all. Many bogotanos went down the mountainsides to resort hotels for a holiday weekend...
When the spirit moves him, Montreal Sculptor Robert Roussil, 24, does not fuss around with preliminary sketches; he snatches up hammer & chisel and attacks the raw material as it stands. Last summer he saw an oddly shaped tree, a tall pine with a forked trunk, and the spirit moved. By the time all the chips had fallen, Roussil had an impressionistic piece sculptured in the totemic form: a father standing in front of a kneeling mother holding a child. He called it Family Group...
When passers-by saw it the next morning, they gaped and gasped: the father's massive figure was unclothed. Within a few minutes a crowd of several hundred had gathered, and somebody called the police. The cops elbowed their way through the onlookers, took a horrified look themselves, and carted the statue off to the municipal jail...