Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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said, 'I didn't show you the painting I'm doing now.' And he brought out a still-life of a tomato plant, then another and an other, until there were 21 variations of the subject. 'I usually work on a number of canvases at a time. . . .' (He doesn't disguise or conceal his failures, but he simply tries again, seeing failure and success as parts of the abundant, continuous flow of his creative activity.) " 'There are other things I'd like to show you; besides,' he continued...
...rent she paid for his manor. But he suffered an anguish of snobbery over having his ancestral home occupied by a bunch of "elderly . . . slightly deformed [school] mistresses" dressed in wartime "utility non-crease . . . ready-made dresses of a kind of fine sacking in shades of puce [and] dirty tomato'' -to say nothing of the Cockney girls "in shapeless purple flannel blazers [and] pudding-bowl grey felt hats." The Squire and his family wondered what the world was coming to. "Poor Harefield is practically in the hands of the Jews," muttered the Belton son-&-heir. "There...
...doorbells, tells them "I'm Henry Wallace," and then sits down for a little parlor discussion. (This unheralded approach made some housewives nervous ; they never knew but what the next buzz on the doorbell might be the Vice President. What to serve him? Not Scotch, of course. Tomato juice?) In Manhattan's Harlem 4,000 Negroes attended a big political rally at which the VP had been advertised as the main speaker, only to find that his speech was to be played off a record. At a rally in Wall Street a lunch-hour crowd ignored...
...widower (his son, Captain John C. H. Lee Jr., is with the engineers in France), he continues to entertain well. At his London apartment he had a bar for his guests; he himself generally drank only tomato juice. Now his headquarters are in the Majestic Hotel in Paris...
...Thomas Katz, of Brooklyn: "A fresh lettuce and tomato sandwich with ice-cold fresh milk to wash it down...