Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brady had never had a lesson, and her work showed it. But the best of it possessed an effective if awkward directness. Au Bout on d'Or (see cut) looked static at first glance, but it had just the sexy-sweet, penny-arcade nostalgia she was trying for: the memory of summer nights when it is too hot to pull the shades and the city turns into a bright hive of private worlds...
...Strange Sweet. This spring, Sybille went to work for the Americans, and things were a little better. Most meals consisted of soup and potatoes, with a thin slice of sausage and cheese three times a week in the evening, and a small chunk of meat on Sundays. By standing in line for hours, Frau Weidner could get bread and now & then some cereal. Sybille even brought home some G.I. candy for her small brother. Dieter looked at it uncomprehendingly. "What is that?" he asked...
...strident trumpet took up the what's-wrong-with-our-colleges refrain. New York University's Professor of Philosophy Sidney Hook, in a new book (Education for Modern Man, Dial; $2.75), blew a sweet note for John Dewey and experimental education, a sour blast for Chicago's Robert Hutchins and the classic tradition...
...shoving, ladies!" the sweet-faced nurse twittered as the patients rushed to the dinner table. "Get away from my chair," said one of the ladies. "No talking, ladies," screamed Nurse Hart, who looked "like a wildebeest." Virginia was disappointed in her dinner because she only managed to get two bites of bread. The rest was snatched by the other ladies...
...present-day inheritor of Norton's mantle, considers the Fogg's Pre-Raphaelite possessions just as fascinating as they are vapid, but tells his students that they should be considered in relation to the literature of their day. No one could deny that Rossetti's sickly sweet Blessed Damozel (see cut) seemed a little better on reading his verses inscribed on the frame...