Word: toads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gogh landscape made of a briar patch of angry, tangled pen strokes; a Picasso drawing of two nudes which looked like sacks of coal (and another which might have been a doodle by Raphael); Group of Draped Standing Figures (headless) by British Sculptor Henry Moore; a wildly sketched, toad-faced "Conqueror" hoisting a stein of beer, by Mexican José Clemente Orozco. But even Ingres might have been willing to admit the simplicity and tenderness of Sculptor Brancusi's three huddled Infants...
When Harry Truman made the traditional demand last spring, the U.S. Government had grown more lumps and bumps than a tree toad-1,141 bureaus employing nearly 3,000,000 people. Despite these admitted tumors, and the fact that the new President didn't seem like the sort of surgeon who would tattoo the patient after operating, just for laughs, Congress spent seven months in alarmed concern...
...movement was born on Dec. 21, 1844, when 28 shabbily dressed flannel weavers met in a warehouse on Toad Lane, Rochdale, Lancashire. They put in about $5 each so that they could buy candles, sugar, etc., in larger quantities, thus get them cheaper. Now there arc 143,000,000 members of 810,000 cooperative societies throughout the world...
...Birnam were more purely comic he would be Mr. Toad; if he were more purely tragic he would be Hamlet...
...TIME, going on 21, may not have known Toad as long as Reader Rickett, but considers that his soft verdict on that essentially incorrigible character does more credit to his heart than to his head...