Word: smock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time. In 1900, when he was a young and promising writer of stories, Gorky went to call on the great novelist, later spent some time near Tolstoy's home in the Crimea. Perhaps he had expected to find a dull old vegetarian disguised in a peasant's smock and spouting platitudes. He found instead a henpecked, shriveled, electrifying man with "shaggy" eyebrows, "wonderful" hands, a passion for card games, a "shocking" coarseness of speech...
...pits the bodies had been neatly stacked like cordwood; in others the stiff, twisted remains had been heaped together as they fell. Some had been officers, some privates; all wore faded blue-grey uniforms and tarnished brass buttons with the Polish eagle still recognizable. Dr. Prozorovsky wore a white smock, an orange apron and red rubber gloves. Kathy had on a plaid skirt, an orange pullover sweater and garnet nail polish...
...Orleans' eminent surgeon Dr. Marion Sims Souchon, 71, leads a double life. After the last patient has left his office (and he wishes the list of patients was shorter), he rips off his white medical smock and pounces on his brushes and paint pots, gets busy on the hobby which has made him, in six years, New Orleans' most original artist...
...Princeton introduced long hair, canvas jackets (called "smocks" because they were invented by a student named Smock) and the famed V formation, forerunner of the momentum mass plays...
...Dallas, Tex. when his Coolidge drawing, done from photographs, won over 1,000 others, was made the official campaign picture. He also drew Vice-Presidential Candidate Dawes. Thereupon Artist Doctoroff moved to Chicago, to get in big-time portraiture. Since then, a craftsman who wears an arty-looking smock but otherwise is thoroughly conservative and businesslike, he has painted a dozen portraits a year, at an average $1,500 apiece...