Word: shrimps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fawning elegance. His March of the Guards Towards Scotland, an action-filled canvas of the departure of George II's soldiers to put down Bonnie Prince Charlie's Highlands uprising of 1745, is ironic Hogarth realism at its sharpest. Hogarth's most famous oil, The Shrimp Girl, is missing from the show, but a gently smiling Mrs. Salter and the portrait of Hogarth's niece, Mary Lewis, have much of the same spontaneous, light-brushed charm. In his self-portrait, The Painter and His Pug, Hogarth seems to have made a gentle joke...
...Fleet had fought side by side in France) arrived last week for a tour of the front, the two three-star generals boarded Ridgway's C-54 at Eighth Army headquarters at Taegu and flew north. They landed first near I Corps headquarters of Lieut. General Frank ("Shrimp") Milburn. The three of them piled into a jeep, looking from the rear like three G.l.s out to scrounge chickens. Then Ridgway and Van Fleet transferred to light liaison planes, in four hours covered most of the Korean front, talked to eight division and corps commanders. Back in Taegu, they...
Bitterness & the Boy Scouts. By the end of World War II, Syngman Rhee had little left of the pacifist idealism which had motivated him in 1919, had acquired a bitter and intimate understanding of the Korean proverb "When whales fight, the shrimp are eaten." Bypassing the Secretary of State, he persuaded the War Department to return him to liberated Korea simply "as a private person." General John Hodge, who commanded U.S. occupation forces, saw in Rhee a possible rallying point, a focus which might bring order out of South Korea's chaos. When Hodge led Rhee onto a platform...
...sweltering Tampico, where the shrimp boats idled while their crewmen roamed about freely ashore, the U.S. skippers huddled with their lawyers and U.S. consular officials, trying to make up their minds whether to pay the fines under protest or post bail pending an appeal and decision of their cases. The time was ripe for both countries to stop trading such words as "poacher" or "pirate" and settle on a legal definition of territorial limits...
Before long, teachers from all over town were parading their charges through the museum, many for the first time. The kids fondled Daniel Boone's own flintlock, modeled the formal tasseled coat worn by one of the city's founders, pint-sized ("Boy, was he a shrimp!") Auguste Chouteau. As the children listened to the story of St. Louis' great fire of 1849, they clambered over the old fire engine, tried on the old derby-like helmets, shouted through the trumpet megaphones used by the fire vamps...