Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prove to be the immense delight, and benefit of all good people. This play, by the late Jean Giraudoux, is of a caliber too seldom achieved--or even attempted--these days; it combines imagination, intelligence, and social commentary with the best possible results. Not since Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth" has a play been offered that was capable of stimulating in its audience that honest exhilaration which is the aim of true comedy...
...into Seven? There were signs last week that these and other attacks on the trustbusters, notably the newspaper campaign of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., had gotten under the Justice Department's skin. Before the National Retail Dry Goods Association in Manhattan, Attorney General J. Howard McGrath loudly denied-as he has before-that he is prosecuting bigness as such. Even in the case of the A. & P., McGrath said the question was not size but the company's "illegal gains at the expense of the American public and their competitors." The A. & P. is guilty...
...dead serious you are about a character, even a comic character, the more the audience will like and understand it." Brushing aside a small pile of slightly battered false eyelashes, she peered furiously into the mirror and began furiously to massage the islands of red paint into her white skin. "It has to be serious," she said fervently, "or it won't be funny...
Modern psychologists and pedagogues would call Winston Churchill's childhood far from ideal. His early picture of his mother: "In a riding habit, fitting like a skin and often beautifully spotted with mud . . . she shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly-but at a distance." Even more remote was his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, brilliant and erratic Chancellor of the Exchequer (1886), who died when Winston was 20. Lord Randolph thought that Winston was not bright enough to study law; one day after watching the boy play with his host of 1,500 toy soldiers...
...where he started a sheep and cattle ranch, young Bridges was able to make out most of what the Yahgan Indians were talking about. But an even bigger challenge confronted him. In rugged, unexplored northeastern Tierra del Fuego lived the fierce Ona tribe. Naked under their calf-length, guanaco-skin capes, the nomadic Ona stood as high as six feet in their fur moccasins, hunted their game (mostly guanaco) with bow & arrow, and spoke a language that sounded like "a man clearing his throat...