Word: tuscan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just over the ridge was the Tuscan host. Provoked by this latest demonstration of organized labor's willfulness, the leaders of the 80th Congress thumbed over pages of proposed antilabor legislation. Above the coal pits, above all of organized labor, the pendulum of public opinion swung. Lewis himself had given it a big push towards intolerance. A general strike in Oakland, Calif, was hastily called off by A.F.L. labor leaders who saw the way the pendulum was swinging...
...shopping lists were hats. This year they were big, beflowered, befeathered (see cut), and they cost a pretty penny. Boston's swank C. Crawford Hollidge, Ltd. did a rush business on ostrich-plumed jobs at $65. Chicago's Bes-Ben sold all the floppy, fancy tuscan straws it could turn out at $52.75 and up. "Mmmm, but you'll look delicious," burbled Manhattan's Arnold Constable over a "high-crown cartwheel . . . with pastel blooms encased in spun, sugary net," all for $45. Macy's offered an open-crowned straw loaded with daisies...
...white marble Tuscan-Romanesque Cathedral, begun in the 11th Century...
Immortal Charmer. Leonardo's life, with its lustrous and peculiar glints through the obscurities of history, will always have a fascination comparable to his work. He was born, out of wedlock, at the Tuscan town of Vinci, in 1452. His father was a prominent lawyer, his mother a peasant woman. The bastard was brought up by his father. Precociously gifted in painting and drawing, he was sent to work with Andrea del Verrocchio, a sculptor and art teacher of Florence...