Word: tableau
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Under the towering, mossy oaks of Bayou du Large, La. they finally got around to celebrating Christmas, last Sunday. A tinseled tree glittered in the little white chapel of St. Andrew's Episcopal Mission. Children solemnly posed in a tableau of the Nativity. The young Rev. Clarence R. Haden Jr., rector of St. Matthew's Church in nearby Houma, preached a Yuletide sermon to some 100 people...
...Tableau. In Hillsdale, Ill., harried Farmer Arthur Ferkel stood with the muzzle of a gun under his neck, his toe on the trigger, threatened to press while a sheriff and his deputy tried to argue him out of it. He held the pose for seven hours before they won the argument...
Hemispheric Cooperation: To enliven the routine task of a Washington news photographer covering the wedding of Lieut. Francisco Castillo Najera, son of the Mexican Ambassador, and Seńorita Alicia Calvillo of Mexico City, the groom swept his bride off her feet, staged a rare tableau of best-dressed romance (see cut). Animal Fair: Some 2,000 dogs which will do Coast Guard shore patrol work went into training on the estate of Joseph E. Widener, multimillionaire Philadelphia art patron and horse breeder. Into the Army for training went Gogo and Cliquot, green-eyed Cinemactress Greer Garson's Fighting...
...magisterial lash of the hand stopped the orchestra. The abashed boy & girl players looked like a tableau of The Damnation of Faust. Said Conductor Koussevitzky: "It doesn't sound." Then he added gently: "But we will arrive. We will arrive...
...there is also a limbo, the sea-bottom world of the immemorially poor, "stultified by hard labor, underfed, suspicious, cowardly, astute, patient, good or bad according to which way the wind might blow." In a description like an Italian primitive, Silone fixes a segment of this limbo in a tableau on the village square. Peasants crowd their patient, beaten donkeys past a pink-cheeked effigy of St. Anthony of Egypt (patron saint of donkeys) for the ceremony of his blessing. Above stand two stone saints whose faces, under wear of time and weather, have become like the worn, patient faces...