Word: slendering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rather momentous in the artistic world. Visitors wandered about regarding the pieces with that half-lethargic curiosity usually accorded the great; and several, ruminatively twisting their printed guides into cones or corkscrews, paid particular homage to a work consisting of a girl, finely poised on her toss and with slender arms flung high...
...ladies are jealous." But a few were conspicuous for their labors last week. There was young Julia Drumm who played capably on the flute; wiry Jeannette Scheerer who understands a clarinet; Tympanist Muriel Watson who practices on boards at home because she has no drums of her own; slender Maxine Scott who wrapped a tuba over her shoulder and puffed manfully through a Wagner finale...
...hope that you will dispel the rumor that 'September Morn' now is living in poverty," said he last week. "She isn't. She is 41 now, and alas, she is no longer as slender as when she posed for me. She is happily married to a wealthy French industrialist and has three lovely children. I cannot tell her name because she does not want to be embarrassed with remembrances of the days when she posed in the nude. . . . She was only 16 when I first started the picture. ... I think I succeeded in capturing her delicate charm...
...Chabas, who had been exhibiting with the Salon since 1885, spent by the chilly borders of Lake Annecy in the French Savoie, not far from Switzerland. Whenever the mornings were warm and clear enough, he would go down to the lake shore at 8:30 a. m. with his slender, blonde model. She would strip off her clothes, stand ankle deep in the icy water in a pose that the whole world knows. A slow meticulous worker, Artist Chabas would paint for only 30 minutes, then knock off until the next good morning. When the canvas was finished...
...afternoon when a street car rattled out Atlanta's Peachtree Street, stopped at the rolling campus which William Randolph Hearst gave to Oglethorpe (TIME, Aug. 6). The slender young man who stepped off was Nathan Yagol, instructor in Chemistry at neighboring Emory University. Instructor Yagol started across the campus toward the auditorium. Invited to address the International Relations Club, he had small idea how the rest of Oglethorpe felt when he trod the campus. Two things are hated by all good Oglethorpe men and Instructor Yagol represented both of them. One is Emory University, which Oglethorpe's ebullient...