Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wavy pompadour was flecked with grey and his bony face was pale and lined. But as he sat in the witness chair, he cocked his impressive beak at the prosecution's attorneys with a parakeet's assurance. His Australian snarl was as sardonic as ever, as he tried to refute the Government's charges-that he had been a Communist and had lied in denying it when he became a citizen...
...show proved that Levine was certainly a lively painter. His composition was clever and his colors bright. Occasionally, when the editorial mood hit him too hard, he began wagging his brush. Then the result was little better than partisan cartooning, e.g., a soapbox snarl at the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, titled Reception in Miami. But when he chose to paint subjects instead of targets-the grimy street corners of downtown America, a littered store window, a peddler's sway-backed nag or a weary tombstone cutter-Levine had something of his own to say. And he said...
Changing Face. The face of midtown was changing fast. The dark old stone mansion on Fifth Avenue, where for years old Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt stubbornly held her stately dinners within earshot of swirling shopping crowds and the snarl of Fifth Avenue buses, had been replaced by Crowell-Collier's new white office building. Next to Rockefeller Center, the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas crumbled before the wrecking ball and plans for a new building for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. A great, bare office building was rising on the site of the Murray Hill Hotel, in whose Victorian...
Bessie in Flight. During World War II, old Bessie (built by International Business Machines Corp. and presented by I.B.M. to Harvard) was given the job of evaluating mathematically an electrically powered cannon that the Nazis were known to be building. Bessie chewed into a snarl of equations and proved that the weapon was utterly impractical. The U.S. relaxed while the Germans, who had no Bessie, went on wasting enormous effort on an impossible task...