Word: steers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...praise of Tom; at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, biggest combined military, agricultural, petroleum engineering and veterinary school in the U. S. (it furnished more Army officers in World War I than West Point), maneuvers, a showerbath, dinner with ex-Governor Jim Ferguson and 900 other guests (roast Texas steer). Then on 160 miles to Tyler, the East Texas oil fields blazing fountains of burning gas in the hot night; to bed at 1:30 a.m. In Shreveport, La. a holiday crowd of 10,000, and a reception by Governor-elect Sam Jones; to Jackson at midnight, to bed after...
...Burlington House. Last month war's leveling influence did what peacetime protests had never done-made an Academy show really representative, also gave it much-needed ginger. At the "all-in" exhibit were 1,270 artists, including such famed newcomers to sedate Burlington House as Jacob Epstein, Wilson Steer, Duncan Grant...
During the past several years, a number of county and State societies have elected "executive secretaries" for long tenure, to steer the societies through troublous times. Before leaving office last December, the Comitia Minora, the board of directors of the New York County Society, appointed as pilot Dr. Benjamin Wallace Hamilton, a veteran factotum...
Most of the panels are a strange blend of allegory and realism. Sample melange: Red Tape, in which people are entangled in a clocklike cobweb with a steer's skull at its centre. A squirrel gnaws at the skull, while from the right the late great Justice Holmes, astride a white charger, levels a lance at the cobweb. In other panels: a ticker-tape Pied Piper leading men to a gambling table, a gangster having a manicure, Humanity sitting in the skeleton of the Past. Critics praised what they could, or like the New York Times's Edward...