Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wait Till Next Time. The President was up at 6, and hungry as a mountain lion by the time the paunchy veterans of old "Dizzy D" Battery whooped into a Marion Hotel dining room for their annual breakfast-home-grown peaches in thick cream, hickory-smoked country ham with "redeye" gravy, hominy grits, bacon & eggs and hot biscuits. As usual, it was a time for loud laughing and hearty reminiscences of some of the boys who were gone. Captain Harry did some reminiscing himself: Remember poor old Sandifer? He came through many a prizefight on cigarettes and a bottle...
...objected when Stryker, bobbing around the court, kept getting between him and the witness. He bristled when Stryker gave his arm a jovial pat. Once he spoiled Stryker's melodramatic reading of some evidence by pleading in his heavy voice, "Oh, please, Mr. Stryker, read it straight." His thick, brown mustache worked, he sighed with rage when little Judge Kaufman time & again overruled his objections, sustained many of Stryker...
...found the boats untended, their flowers wilted. An old boatman named Cecilio ("Negro") Pacheco explained why. He leaned over the side of his canoa, plunged a muscular arm into the murky water. "Look," he said. His arm caused a sucking sound as it went up to the elbow in thick mud. "Who wants to ride around Xochimilco...
Burra's fifth one-man show, opening in London's Leicester Galleries last week. made suitably weird use of such source materials. His thick-painted water colors ("I mix my paints with spit, mostly") represent public places from Mexico City and Harlem to Limerick and Toulon, all swarming with grinning monsters from every age. Peering happily at one representative specimen, the pale little painter with the pointed nose giggled: "Isn't that horrible? It gives me a turn. I thoroughly like...
...Jail. The thick, booming voice of towering Henry Winston, Negro organizational secretary of the party, topped the uproar: "If your honor pleases, now may I be heard? More than 5,000 Negroes have been lynched in this country for such...