Word: silk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born in Surrey in 1891, the son of a silk importer, Ronald Colman first headed for an engineering degree at Cambridge, but he had to leave school at 16 when his father died. One of Kitchener's "Old Contemptibles" (the first British soldiers to fight in France) in World War I, he was invalided home with an ankle injury, made his stage debut in 1916. Seeking his fortune in movies after the war, he clicked in Italy, where Henry King took him to be Lillian Gish's leading man in The White Sister. It whisked him to stardom...
...Yorker De Sapio "a Mississippi boss" and "a liar," spun off insults at Republicans and Democrats alike, announced that he would run for an eighth term as an independent Democrat. ¶ Conservative Republican Frederic R. Coudert Jr., 60, whose vote-pulling power in Manhattan's East Side silk-stocking 17th Congressional District was badly snagged the last two times out by big Democratic protest votes and near defeat, announced that he would not run for a seventh term. Coudert's withdrawal signaled a bloody primary and a bloodier general election to pick a successor. ¶ Two-term Republican...
...chanting of sutras, the sounding of gongs and the curling smoke of burning incense. Chief Abbot Oda Sesso was ordaining a head priest for the Zen Buddhist temple of Daitokuji Ryosen-An in Kyoto, Japan. The new Zen priest gravely accepted the kesa -the richly brocaded red-and-gold silk scarf that is the mark of the priesthood -and assumed the Buddhist name of Jyokei. But in Chicago, where she was born 65 years ago, her name was Ruth Fuller. Last week she became the first American in history to be admitted to the Japanese Buddhist priesthood and installed...
Kokoschka still thinks that art is in the artist's eye, and terms his school of painting (where he teaches students from 22 nations) the "school of vision." He scorns modern painters as "decorators for wallpaper, printed silk or men's ties" because "they do not use their eyes any more." He also unhesitatingly claims second sight. When he painted the portrait of Professor Auguste Forel, famous Swiss psychiatrist, Kokoschka made his subject look 20 years older, with his right hand drooping strangely, his right eye blind. Forel and his family protested that the portrait was a poor...
That molish little man who had previously peered out from a scotch-bottle and tortoise shell opaque to murmur, "Bacchanal, simply bacchanal," was asleep in a lump on the floor, draped in the silk standard of the Dominican Republic...