Word: stooping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Milfred Yant is a man with a remarkable air of respectability; it is accentuated by his pudgy figure, his middle-aged stoop, his brownish hair and open countenance. Back in 1935, as a result, he had little difficulty in selling acres & acres of steep, arid, brush-covered land in the barren hills above Los Angeles County's Placerita Canyon. The tract looked like a rest home for Gila monsters, but he got $1,950 an acre for it-just $1,900 more than he had paid...
...game of pick-up-sticks. What the U.S. entrants lacked in know-how they almost made up for in energy and imagination. Joseph Hirsch's Journey-an old man and a boy on a burro-looked as if it had been painted with mud from under the back stoop, and its only hint of Christmas was the sharp red of a couple of poinsettias in the boy's hand. But the red, contrasted with the dirty gloom of the rest of the picture, was enough; it made Journey one of the most moving canvases in the show. Edmund...
Walter Stuempfig is a stoop-shouldered Philadelphian with an unruly little mustache and a worried look. He has less to worry about than most artists, for at 35 Stuempfig is a solid critical and popular success: he has sold out three one-man shows in six years and won a reputation as the foremost young "romantic" painter in the U.S. Stuempfig's latest exhibition, which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week, did nothing to diminish that reputation, but it did raise a question : How romantic...
Ambassador Lewis Douglas was back in London after the dollar talks, minus the patch he has worn over his left eye since it was snagged by a wind-blown salmon hook last April. He paused on the front stoop of the U.S. embassy in Grosvenor Square to exchange grave greetings with an old family retainer named Reggie...
...liked. It upheld his right to equal schooling, and to the vote-leaving the details to Southern legislatures. After first backing & filling on questions involving Jehovah's Witnesses, the court finally upheld the right of that sect to propagandize religious bigotry even on a man's front stoop; on a technicality of the law, a majority upheld the right of rabble-rousing Father Arthur Terminiello to incite a Chicago...