Word: toes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skeletons began to rattle again. ¶ Daniel Bolich, 52, assistant internal revenue commissioner and No. 2 man in the tax collections hierarchy until he retired last November because of "poor health," was indicted by a Brooklyn federal grand jury. The charge: criminal evasion of income taxes. Bolich (rhymes with toe kick) was under fire last April from the House subcommittee investigating irregularities in the BIR (TIME, April 14). ¶Fred H. Altmeyer, 39, suspended deputy collector of internal revenue in Pittsburgh, was indicted by a federal grand jury for extorting and embezzling $4,142 from two taxpayers...
...Spaniards gustily swallowed every ounce of humor. Jerome Robbins' controversial The Cage was temporarily banned in The Hague because of its unusual theme of spiderlike viricide, but few Dutch hairs were turned when it was finally performed. Audiences almost everywhere agreed that one ballet was tops: oldfashioned, toe-tipping Swan Lake...
...company liked to dance in Zurich because the traditionally critical audience gave it its best reception; in Paris because "it was Paris," and Florence because the stage was so good. They suffered more than the usual number of sprains, and used up more than $10,000 worth of toe slippers on rough stages elsewhere. In Barcelona they found the life expectancy of a pair of slippers was 20 minutes...
...look is merely superficial. Inside the jazzy jackets, the little books toe a firm fundamentalist line going straight back to fiery Evangelist Dwight L. Moody, who founded the press in 1894. In The Prodigal, copyright 1898, Moody himself delivers a brisk little homily on the perils of cigars, whisky and wild women. More up-to-the-minute, A Visit to Mars is mildly in the modern science-fiction vein. The Martians, it turns out, are not only supermen but super-Christians, who have attained a state of grace. The only graceless, earthian thing about them is their dialogue. Sample...
...last month, a cluster of art lovers stood tippy-toe outside the Art Center in Manchester, Vt. Within twelve minutes after the doors were opened, some 40 canvases were sold; by last week, the total had jumped to 205, fetching $10,000. It promised to be the fattest annual exhibition the Southern Vermont Artists, Inc. had ever...