Word: theo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...likely to turn up in whatever coalition emerges after March 26. But the current guess was that their new partners would be the Socialists rather than the Liberals, and that Eyskens would be replaced as Premier, perhaps by the Social Christians' party president, a tough, ambitious lawyer named Theo Lefevre...
...horizon ridges, a picket fence of pencil strokes for the men on the line. These were later worked up into more finished sketches, much of the detail supplied from the artist's own pocket reference book. "Infantry, cavalry and artillery soldiers," wrote Harper's Theo Davis, "each had their particular uniform, and besides these, their equipments, such as belts, swords, guns, cartridge boxes, and many other things, were different. As many as ten different saddles were in use, and of the many army homes-tents-there were a great variety." Artists' sketches were often scrawled with advice...
...Gogh, who is in Cambridge for a short visit and a talk on his uncle at the Fogg Museum, is a calm, white-haired gentleman who possesses the ease and charm that one associates with his father, Theo, Vincent's brother and truest friend. Since both brothers died before Mr. Van Gogh was two, he speaks of them with not only family pride, but also with appropriate scholarly detachment...
...Theo owned and left to his family about a third of Vincent's total creative output, which Mr. Van Gogh saw early and often. Theo's possessions covered the whole range of his brother's art, from the gray Dutch period, to the Impressionist style of Vincent's Paris days to the final agonized distortions of the Auvers paintings. These works have since been put on permanent loan at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Mr. Van Gogh has retained in direct possession only a handful of his uncle's art, enough to decorate the small house outside Amsterdam which...
...equal number of men." A mammoth suffrage parade down Fifth Avenue, with Lillian Russell and 15,000 other marchers impressed the nation and won large-scale public sympathy. After that, bloomer-clad suffragettes paraded in front of the White House, pinned jonquils on the lapels of sympathetic Congressmen. Theo dore Roosevelt endorsed the cause, and in 1918 Woodrow Wilson surrendered, urged Congress to act. Two years later, after 72 years, the battle of the sexes...