Word: thickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Church & State of Mind. Rouault is a novelty among artists: he goes to church, regularly. During the week he works alone, locked in his studio with sheafs of his barely decipherable poetry and his harsh, thick, color-encrusted paintings, broken-like leaded windows-into black-bordered stabs of color, which he sometimes waits years to complete. He is bad tempered-and painfully shy. "I believe in suffering," he once wrote; "with me it is not feigned; that is my only merit...
...Dear Mr. Hall: I am glad to hear that your horseless carriage is giving you the satisfaction that I felt sure it would. As to the tires, you need have no concern. They are made of real rubber and are five-eighths of an inch thick...
...loves to buy drinks for the boys, and they love to let him. He also treats himself-to whopping feasts (thick steaks of corn-fed beef, hot biscuits, baked and buttery potatoes, lots of black pepper and paprika). Six years ago he tried to reduce, got irritable ruptured an eardrum and his appendix, went back to gourmandizing, and has felt fine ever since. Saturday nights, after drinks, a steam bath, a rubdown and dinner at the Kansas City Club, he goes back to work: "so the rest of the staff can't say that the big fat bastard...
Last week a pent-up man eased his big frame into a desk chair in a plainly furnished 16th-floor ofnce in Manhattan's Steinway Building. The man was Dr. Artur Rodzinski, conductor of New York's renowned Philharmonic-Symphony. His small eyes, almost concealed behind thick glasses, took in his audience: seven tense members of the Philharmonic's executive committee...
...first 100% layman ever to head the Federal Council of Churches (TIME, Dec. 16), Cincinnati Lawyer Charles P. Taft, looked like a fine new broom-and the cluttered house of U. S. Protestantism is thick with ancient ecclesiastical dust. The situation suggested a lot of house-cleaning ideas to sharp-tongued Magazine Writer Stanley High. Wrote angry Presbyterian High in this week's Christian Century...