Word: skirting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Highlight of the exhibition was a series taken in Manhattan burlesque theatres. Lohse had surreptitiously snapped queens of the famed "strip" routine in the split-second of removing their last skirt and flouncing into the wings. He had caught the slovenly posturing of the chorus on the runway. Other series showed the chorus of Take a Chance (TIME, Dec. 12) swirling their skirts, Jazz Singer Ethel Merman in consecutive poses of singing "Rise and Shine," colored Ethel Waters singing ''Stormy Weather," Actress Lynn Fontanne Lunt making up her face, and the show girls of Manhattan...
...guard threatened to brain an assistant if he tried to take a snapshot. Rivera's heavy scaffolding was replaced by a movable scaffold. Rivera draped tracing paper over the outside railing, screening the platform from the guards, and a woman assistant took a camera from under her skirt to photograph, close up, part of the fresco. The scaffold was moved, the operation repeated until Rivera had photographs of the whole fresco. He was scarcely surprised that the Rockefellers objected to his work when they saw it as living art and realized what it meant...
London's Morning Post comments on the large number of new words of "America's queer coinage (which so often proves ancient currency disinterred)." E. g.- "Racket-a trick, dodge, scheme, game, line of business or action. 1812." "Skirt-A woman. Now vulgar slang, 1560.'' Unlike Sam Johnson, who occasionally winked (as when he defined "lexicographer" as "a harmless drudge") and who occasionally nodded into Latinic somnolence ("Network-anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections"), editors of the S. O. E. D. are always serious but try hard...
...cardinal (TIME. Dec. 28, 1931). Son of a French Canadian cobbler, he is only 49, a tall, spare ascetic whom Ottawa called its "Good Father" when he taught there in St. Joseph Scholasticate and the University. Last June Archbishop Villeneuve admonished women to bathe in suitable costume, "a skirt reaching nearly to the knees ... a species of coat or cape which shields the shape of the body." When he set sail from New York last month he said: "I do not feel at all worthy, but the sovereign pontiff calls...
...other. Neither knows Mrs. Benedict. Professor Morgan, 50, is a short, trim woman with slightly grey bobbed hair, blue eyes. Since 1906 she has taught zoology at Mount Holyoke (except for two years at Cornell), has headed her department since 1916. During school hours she habitually wears a tailored skirt, shirtwaist, tie, white "physician's" coat. She moves briskly about her laboratories, lectures her classes in clear, crisp tones. Her recent writings for learned publications have dealt with the winter habits and yearly food consumption of adult spotted newts. But her favorite preoccupation has been and, says she, will...