Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reich's Solid South...
...horse of hers that horsemen like best is cranky, gluttonous Lord Boswell. He is solid brown, not too big, with slim neck and the kind of pointed head horses have in old racing prints. He tries to nip and kick his ancient Negro groom, who calls him "Boss Man." His appetite is so voracious that he has to be muzzled to keep him from eating his bedding. Not long ago, his stableboys found the glass of two electric light bulbs mysteriously crunched out, and Lord Boswell up on his hind legs licking another bulb. Now Boss Man has no light...
They came to buy a brand of expressionism which seemed far to the right of Evergood's politics. His strict sense of how to draw usually made a solid scaffold for his rags and flags of dramatic, loosely brushed color to fly from. When he was bad, Evergood was horrid. Some of his most obviously propagandistic work (American Tragedy, Jobs Not Dimes') looked careless-on-purpose-like that of a politician who mispronounces words for effect. But thought-out paintings such as Juju as a Wave (a portrait of his wife-see cut) had a warmth of feeling...
...Solid Fuels Administration's local offices were swamped by requests from large & small businesses for "just one car of coal." SFA had only 23,000 cars left (a little less than a normal day's mining) of the 33,000 it had hoarded at the strike's start. At best the supply might last another week. In Chicago and Philadelphia, hard-hit utilities prepared for a return to the wartime brownout...
...Provost's controversial statement concerning undergraduate balance received solid approval from 56% of the votes, while 39% disagreed and 8% just didn't know, or thought that Harvard men were "Nice just as they...