Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well-heeled Canadian consumer, as well as increased wages, is tending to raise prices. Although the cost-of-living index has held fairly steady since the first of the year, there are signs that it may be heading upward. Bread prices increased 1? a loaf last week; soft-drink dealers added a penny a bottle; brand-name coffee rose to $1.27 a pound...
...side. Her square-toed shoes scarcely touch the floor, and though the floor is seen from above, Margaret stands at eye level. Nevertheless, the portrait is superb as well as typical limning. Margaret neither looms out of the picture nor shrinks into it, but stands quiet and assured, with soft gestures and thinking eyes...
Joseph Wanton is character analysis in the grand manner. Done by Scottish Immigrant John Smibert, it shows a Royalist politician whose bland, irresolute features bode ill for his future fame. After Wanton became Governor of Rhode Island, he fought with soft talk the stirrings of the American Revolution, and retired the moment the storm broke. Painter Smibert's story was just the opposite. He learned his craft by studying the masters while painting carriages, came to America in 1729, when he was 40. One year later he held the first art show ever recorded in America, and became...
...Captains Carousing at Surinam lies a world away from such formal make-believe. Painter John Greenwood, a footloose Boston artist, showed the soft underbelly of Puritanism. Surinam, or Dutch Guiana, was a stopping place on the Yankee merchant circuit. Greenwood spent some years there, put himself in his picture rushing, candle in hand, for the door. Among the other identified portraits is that of Captain Nicholas Cooke (later Governor of Rhode Island), smoking a pipe and talking with Captain Esek Hopkins (later commander of the Continental navy) at the table. Another Hopkins, Stephen (who was to sign the Declaration...
...dance dates with his big band: "The clarinet has a quality that's kind of oldfashioned. I think it sort of irks the moderns; it sort of throws them. They've found ways to disguise the sound of other instruments, especially the trumpet. They make it sound soft and low−not like a real trumpet. But any good clarinetist makes it sound like a clarinet. They gotta...