Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bamboo sticks and drop them into large boxes resembling footlockers. The ballots had been printed before Shinicky's death, and still bore his name. There were few incidents and no certified cases of interference with the voters. By nightfall, the huge unpainted boxes began to give up their secret. It proved to be a bitter one for Syngman Rhee. In a revolt that spread through cities and villages alike, the people of South Korea had dealt Rhee and his government a stunning blow...
...lots of gay, light music. This one is a fantastic satire of the atomic age and all its perils. A group of grey professors discovers the "key to consciousness," which permits knowledge of the past and future. The problem, complicated by young love, is whether to keep the discovery secret or turn it over to the authorities. Instrumentalists were seated in niches around the stage and played frothy music as the performers spoke and sang...
Model's Secret. Born the illegitimate daughter of a hard-working peasant woman, Suzanne Valadon was raised in the Paris streets like countless gamins, working as a seamstress, waitress, vegetable seller, and drawing for pleasure on the sidewalks with pieces of coal. Tradition has it that she first caught the eye of Painter Puvis de Chavannes when she delivered his laundry. Struck by her slim figure and natural grace, he made her the model for all the figures (both male and female) in his most celebrated painting, The Sacred Wood. Other assignments soon followed. Auguste Renoir used...
Renoir was the first to discover his model's secret. When Suzanne failed to show up for a sitting one day, Renoir went to her room. Finding her drawing a self-portrait in pastels, Renoir exclaimed in astonishment: "You, too?" Lautrec also praised her work, saw to it that she met the great, testy French master, Edgar Degas, who had seen her as an acrobat at Place Pigalle's Molier Circus before a bad fall finished her brief career. Degas in turn was delighted. Said he: "You are one of us." Recalled Suzanne, years later: "That...
...above may very well meet in Cambridge in three weeks. If they do appear, the chances are they will be here to pick up a few of the honorary degrees offered annually by the University. At this point, just who the recipients will be remains the usual closely guarded secret...