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Word: sloe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like any typical Paris sculpture show of the 19303, Director Valentin's U. S. exhibition was long on abstractions and elephantoid nudes, short on frock-coat portraits and winsome nymphs (exceptions: Simon Moselsio's sloe-eyed Nude, John B. Flannagan's dreamy bronze Mother and Child-see cuts). None of the pieces showed any recognizable relation to the U. S. scene. Most abstract of all were: 1) a nut-&-bolt portrait by David Smith, virtuoso in scrap iron (TIME, Nov. 18); 2) a jittery, swaying mobile made out of fence wire and iron by U. S. Mobilist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Domesticated Chisels | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...have a career and still be a good wife-but mostly because through her more of the milk of human kindness is available in all quarters than ever before," New York World's Fair Chairman Harvey D. Gibson bestowed a citation for distinguished service on sleek and sloe-eyed World's Fair cow Elsie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 28, 1940 | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...Messrs. Stettinius & Knudsen went the big, full-time jobs. Most of their fellow commissioners also moved in last week. Sloe-eyed, calm-mouthed Dean Harriet Elliott of the University of North Carolina conferred with Federal officials interested in her job of consumer protection. Net impression about her job was that, for the moment, its functions will be delightfully vague. Agriculturist Chester C. Davis got a capable assistant, Paul Porter of CBS, publicly did little else. Railroader Ralph Budd (transportation) was heard to remark that he faced only one problem: an excess of facilities. Labor Overseer Sidney Hillman was still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Getting Under Way | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

Death. Some 20 years ago, Scottish-born Dorothy Mackaye was a slip of a lass with a pair of sloe-black, Oriental eyes and an intermittent lisp that made her afraid audiences would laugh at the wrong times if she played dramatic roles. So she turned to comedy, made her biggest hit as Peg in Peg o' My Heart. She also married Musical Comedy Actor Ray Raymond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Reel | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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