Word: slimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wide Hat, Faint Smile. The story began in the exciting Paris of the 1920s, through which moved Dominique Lacaze, gathering admirers of her slim beauty and quick intelligence. In 1925, she married Paul Guillaume, a wealthy art dealer, the friend of Apollinaire, Cocteau, Utrillo, and of André Derain, whose portrait of Dominique shows her in a wide hat, with a faint smile, a withdrawn expression and eyes that a man could drown in. In 1934 Paul Guillaume died under curious circumstances. At first it was reported that he had been lost at sea on a fishing expedition, then that...
...Crimson is a slim favorite here--assuming, as always, that it has had sufficient time to shake off the trauma incurred in two losses immediately prior to the exam period. The first of these was an 11-1 shellacking at the hands of a brilliant squad of professional amateurs from the Soviet Union; the second, an unexpected humiliation before lowly Providence College...
...Jackson "Slim" Muphlin '61 had "EL 4-6326" tattoed on his chest...
Composer Igor Stravinsky has a fierce distrust of most conductors, especially those who try to conduct his own works. But last week Stravinsky, 76, sat in the balcony of Manhattan's Town Hall and watched benignly while a slim, intense man mounted the podium and launched the first U.S. performance of Stravinsky's most recent score-Threni: Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah. The conductor: Stravinsky's protégé Robert Craft, at 35 one of the world's leading interpreters of avant-garde music...
Greeting Eaton, Mikoyan cooed: "When Mr. Khrushchev talked about you, his whole face was beaming." Now in his twilight years, Cyrus Eaton is the archetype of the fading dog-eat-dog capitalist. Tall and slim (5 ft. 11 in., 175 Ibs.) with frosty blue eyes and arctic white hair, he dresses like Daddy Warbucks (blue suits, grey Homburg) and resides in manorial splendor on huge farms (champion Shorthorn beef cattle) in Ohio and Nova Scotia. His personal wealth is estimated at something like $100 million, and his hard-knuckled grip on U.S. industry extends over a $2 billion empire...