Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would it not be ironic if these so-called Christians who determine men's destinies by the color of their skin or the kinkiness of their hair should in the end be found themselves to be goats in sheep's clothing...
After starring as a wanton in NBC's two-hour TV version of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, peripatetic Musi-comedienne Mary Martin flew to Jamaica to rehearse with Noel Coward for CBS's Ford Star Jubilee to be telecast next month, meanwhile telling one and all of her projected winter trip with husband Richard Halliday to the remote state of Goias, in Brazil. The spot she is dreaming about is 14° south of the equator, 600 miles from the coast, 2,500 ft. up a mountain on a lush plateau full...
Spectacular (Sun. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., NBC). Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, with Helen Hayes, Mary Martin, George Abbott, Florence Reed...
Susceptible Skin. In the 16 years of waiting for the aging Empress Elizabeth to die. Catherine had ample time for self-study. Isolated by sycophants and informers, the young Duchess had no friends to turn to in the Russian court, which, for all its Frenchified airs, was a bear pit of intrigue and malevolence. "One could lay a wager that half the court could hardly read, and I would be surprised if more than a third could write," noted Catherine, who was soon wading through the classics of courtcraft (Tacitus, Plutarch, Montesquieu) and such French philosophers as Voltaire...
Catherine learned to preserve her own susceptible skin through "meticulous honesty and good will." Her maxim: "Behave so that the kind love you. the evil fear you, and all respect you." Of her conduct during those years, she writes: "I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman with a mind much more male than female...