Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitler's request for permission to send German troops through to Gibraltar, announced that Spain would defend herself against any attacks from either side. He mobilized an army of some 1,350,000, declared that in the event of any attack on Spain or its possessions, he would seek aid from the enemies of the attacker...
This monumental exhibition represented 17 years of Painter Tchelitchew's work. Chief target of ahs and bahs was the artist's most recent work a 78½ ft.-by-84¾ ft. canvas entitled Hide-and-Seek. Some spectators thought it looked like a gigantic omelet composed, not of eggs, but of innumerable infants. Others thought the picture looked like a vast translucent cranium containing a number of babies enveloped in autumn leaves, some of the children still foetal, one blue-veined crimson hydrocephaloid boy on its stomach, another urinating. Persistent spectators sooner or later discovered that Hide...
...inspiration for puzzle pictures came to Painter Tchelitchew during the summer of 1940 in Vermont. Almost as exciting to gallery-goers as Hide-and-Seek was David and Goliath, just completed. The picture appears to be a highly colored masterly rendering of Vermont in autumn. But ingeniously concealed in the background is the head of Goliath. A tree contains the figure of David. Other outstanding items in the show: a brilliant portrait of Poet Charles Henri Ford with its exquisite hands; an original gouache of Helena Rubinstein, her face covered in sequins and lighted from the front by a splash...
Traveling to Amherst tomorrow the Varsity soccer team will take its first taste of road competition, when it faces Massachusetts State on State's homefield. The booters seek their third win of the season, having begun the campaign with successive wins over Tufts, and Clark; and then skidded to a tie with Army, and losses to Springfield and Princeton...
...recall the workers. 'We can keep the strike going indefinitely,' one Congressman told me. All known Congress leaders and agitators have been arrested, but . . . youths of twelve to 20 years of age intimidate anybody who attempts to return to work, and play a game of hide & seek with the police in the narrow alleyways of the city...