Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eugene Dennis, a tall, tweedy, pipe-smoking young man, showed up in the Communist circles of Milwaukee with his pretty brunette wife, "Peggie." Timothy was not with them. So far as any records show, Timothy was, never brought back...
...lips? The head was porous and had been left outdoors: Had it been exuding moisture? Shirley Anne had her own simple answer: "God made it cry for some reason." The chancellor of the Syracuse Diocese was cautious; as others had done, he conceded that moisture seemed to show on St. Anne's face when Shirley Anne kissed it, hastened to add that "the explanation of the fact, or its significance, has not been established...
...said. Another virtue: "The Americans have something which is missing in England today-beautiful manners." Sir Osbert even had a gaudy tribute for New York, "the most beautiful and inspiring of modern creations, the sole heir to Alexandria, Constantinople and Venice." In Pittsburgh, whose smoke she spoofs in her show, Inside U.S.A., Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) accepted a nosegay of white roses from Mayor David L. Lawrence, accompanied him to a mountain top for a clear view of the city. ("Fortunately," reported the Pittsburgh Press, "it was a nice day.") With the best of British manners, Bea confided that...
...Whitney's twelfth annual mixed exhibition of contemporary U.S. sculpture and watercolors. On the whole, the watercolors had more quality than the stone, steel, wood and bronze figures on display. But if only because it was less familiar, sculpture stole the show...
...hits of the Whitney's show, as of any show, were the works in which form and content were so skillfully united as to be indistinguishable. Burr Miller's sleeping alabaster nude entitled Subconscious and Koren Der Harootian's swooping Sea Bird and Fish were two such sculptures...